All articles from Common Reader
What do we owe each other once we become different sorts of people?
Moral philosophy in On the Calculation of Volume
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Merry Christmas
High performers are late bloomers
A large new study in Science
The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025.
In no special order and not necessarily published recently.
Kiran Desai: catching a glimpse in the forest
The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia
Cat, Soutine, Feeling, Happiness, Conservative, Enigma
Some recent reading
John Carey: the Common Reader’s Professor
The affectionate obsession of a great critic
Cymbeline book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern
Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years
She wrote about what really matters