All articles from Common Reader
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
Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie: Shakespeare, Murder, and the Art of Simplicity
a very fun episode
Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
To the National Gallery, where I was shocked by El Greco’s Laocoön. The three figures on the right are like wraiths or spirits, perhaps shades visiting the dying men, for they cannot be the spirits of