Archive - The Common Reader

Lamorna Ash. Don't Forget We're Here Forever

God, Literature, the Simpsons, therapy, Iris Murdoch, Reddit, AI

Jun 12 •

1:07:33

Splendidly wicked vice in Jane Austen

Learning to read in Northanger Abbey

Jun 11 •

59:34

T.S. Eliot and the Whitsun fire

To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Jun 7 •

Northanger Abbey book club

SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time

Jun 7 •

What questions should writers ask?

Put yours in the comments…

Jun 5 •

Shakespeare's experiments in King John

An important transition play

Jun 4 •

My appearance on the Year of Bach podcast

From J.S. Bach to AI music

Jun 2 •

My favourite works and recordings of J.S. Bach

Jun 1 •

May 2025

A whole new way of reading Jane Austen?

A fascinating thesis I found in the library.

May 29 •

The humanities help us find the people we want to know.

Looking for instrumental arguments

May 26 •

His positions all sounded so much less stable than I had remembered

Don't Forget We're Here Forever, Lamorna Ash

May 25 •

Did Shakespeare crib from Dante?

May 24 •

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