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How to have good taste
Taste is knowledge.
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How to get started reading English literature.
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The modern discourse novel
Novelists who allow the internet to set limits on how they think
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No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley
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Is Mary Oliver a good poet?
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Splendidly wicked vice in Jane Austen
Learning to read in Northanger Abbey
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T.S. Eliot and the Whitsun fire
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Jun 7
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Northanger Abbey book club
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Jun 7
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What questions should writers ask?
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Jun 5
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Shakespeare's experiments in King John
An important transition play
Jun 4
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Does the flame of genius burn past 30?
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Launch day for Second Act!
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My appearance on the Year of Bach podcast
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A whole new way of reading Jane Austen?
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May 29
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The humanities help us find the people we want to know.
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An important transition play
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Did Shakespeare crib from Dante?
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May 24
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Twenty-two facts about King John
a fallen world, from which God is removed
May 22
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Thirty-one facts about Richard II
And the video from the recent Shakespeare book club
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