All articles from Common Reader

The Future of Reading, the Honest Broker, and Michel Houellebecq

Three podcast appearances

Spring-time, night-time, rabbits and raccoons

Thinking of Lowell and Bishop in Arlington

Finishing Buddenbrooks

beware: spoilers...!

The Man Who Read Everything

Letters of Harold Bloom and six poets

Just give Helen DeWitt some money

The failures of modern literary patronage

Buddenbrooks, a masterwork of business and real life. A novel to love and live with.

notes on reading Mann from Austin

Teaching poetry to LDS students raised on the KJV

a comment on Victoria Moul's bog

How to memorise poetry

or, at least, how I memorise poetry

Prayer (I), George Herbert

Poetry by Heart III

Love Calls us to the Things of This World

Poetry by Heart II