Sitemap - 2022 - The Common Reader
"One feels a fool when one ostentatiously attacks a quite irreproachable counterpane."
"How snug England is in the winter."
"I have yet to find a new home in London."
Let’s chat about Christmas reading
The Moon, Sixpence, and Sally Rooney
How to write like Malcolm Gladwell
The books I enjoyed most this year
Katherine Rundell's anatomy of wonders
1825: the first modern financial crisis
“I can’t remember a single thing I’ve done in that office.”
Are we contributing to our moral decline every time we turn on Netflix?
The Great Woman Theory of Vote Leave, Annie Ernaux, Tosca, T.S. Eliot and Hokusai
What about Shakespeare as the national epic?
Finely ordered multiplicity. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, by Jason M. Baxter
Realism and fairy tale in Silas Marner
In defence of the Great Man Theory of history
Persuasion should have been called Consequences
Auden was the best poet of the twentieth century
What are the limits on the use of the very best talent?
Philip Larkin. Poet of the almost.
Anna Gát, startup founder and late bloomer
The Pachinko Parlour, by Elisa Shua Dusapin
The Biographies of Westminster Abbey
The Fortunes of Francis Barber, by Michael Bundock
Light flashes. John Donne by Katherine Rundell
The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
Mark Landis and the art of freedom
Homeschool update: your education is your life
The Last Jubilee? Long live the Queen...
Have we learnt how to let people leave the royal family?
Possible endings for The Winter's Tale
The Biography Conundrum — Was Boswell smarter than Johnson?
Recent books: philosophy, people watching, Peanuts, self help
I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers
Polyrama and the art of character. Shakespeare, Bruegel, Tati.
Samuel Johnson and Progress Studies
Inside the head of modern, young Russia
Six underrated detective novels
Economics in Sense and Sensibility
Samuel Johnson: Reading for Wisdom
Samuel Smiles: late bloomer with a side hustle. Part II
Samuel Smiles: late bloomer with a side hustle. Part I
One Pair of Hands, Monica Dickens