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Late bloomers and lifelong learners
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Not before time...
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Let there be more biographies of failures, people who were ignored by the world, whose ideas came before their time, whose great work was left in ruins…
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Prose style and structure in The Tipping Point
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In no special order and not necessarily published recently
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So many novelists who work on Min Jin Lee’s themes would be making a comment — social or political — often a very predictable comment. Their work would…
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The Winter’s Tale is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. It’s not quite a ‘late bloomer’ play but it’s not so far off. Having been stuck in my sick…
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The chilling spirit of the petty bureaucrat is everywhere and waiting for its chance.
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Rohit Krishnan
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Most of all, Tyler Cowen talks like he writes. Every piece of repetitive, mediocre writing advice (the sort of thing aimed at dreamers on the lunch-hour…
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Hats off, please, to Katherine Rundell, who has written a book about John Donne that can stand toe-to-toe with John Carey, something I would not have…
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A pert, conceited, saucy, pragmatical, little fellow.
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From Jeremy: I wanted to ask you what you think are some of the biggest challenges facing adult common readers today. His answer is at the end. Some…
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