All articles from Common Reader

Are books and babies compatible?

Some general thoughts and Hollis Robbins in The Republic of Letters

Doomed to choose...

Seamus Perry, pluralism, and poetry

Fierce, wild, intractability. Emily Brontë's untameable spirit

extracts from Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë

Twenty-one reactions to Wuthering Heights

from 1847 to 2007

Confederate flags and Shenandoah's timelessness

A startling, splendid, shocking place

How Naomi Kanakia read the Great Books

from her forthcoming book 'What's So Great About the Great Books?'

Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard. “It’s Wanting to Know That Makes Us Matter”

Shaw, Turgenev, Eliot, Beckett, rehearsals, politics, rehearsals, Carey, Woolf, Brian Moore.

Ice storm

The water all stopped and the rivers ran still, the icicles were long enough and sharp enough to kill