Sitemap - 2021 - The Common Reader
Understanding Conversations with Tyler
New Year's Resolutions with Samuel Johnson
"We could pay. But what if we could not?" Boxing Day in the Blitz
"Good content of mind." Christmas Day, 1663: Samuel Pepys
"A beautifully frosty day." Christmas Eve, 1845: Queen Victoria
Prince Albert and Progress Studies
Let absence speak. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West
Elizabeth Jennings and the future of poetry
Alone with the melancholy fountain for company: Real Estate, Deborah Levy
Let's re-think when the nineteenth century happened
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson
Was Samuel Johnson a masochist?
The difference between being idle and being lazy
Who will read your emails when you're gone?
Virginia Woolf and the art of rudeness
Mansfield Park: the value of marginal people
Do real artists write schlock?
Dana Gioia, Studying with Miss Bishop
Baliol Holloway, forgotten Shakespearean actor
Thomas Edison: inventor at work
Bonar Law, the unappreciated prime minister
What kind of ordinary? The sad but amusing life of A.G.C. Liddell
Lady in Waiting, Anne Glenconner
Betty and Patsy, a joint obituary
Where was Samuel Johnson in 1745?
A Silent Joy, by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, by Beatrix Potter
The biography museum, a proposal
The Apartment, by Billy Wilder
A Life Discarded, by Alexander Masters
A House in Flanders, by Michael Jenkins
Penelope Fitzgerald succeeded because she wasn't a prodigy
Let there be more biographies of failures
The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late
James Boswell, a wonderful failure
What is casuistry and how can it make you more rational about politics?