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The Common Reader

Henry Oliver

Literary discussion www.commonreader.co.uk

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44 episodes

  1. James Marriott and the Death of Civilization 52:52
  2. Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That? 1:28:44
  3. Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding 50:27
  4. Oliver Traldi: Jane Austen and the Defence of Virtue 1:14:12
  5. Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie: Shakespeare, Murder, and the Art of Simplicity 1:20:21
  6. Ruth Scurr: The Life and Work of John Aubrey 1:01:51
  7. Naomi Kanakia: How Great Are the Great Books? 53:11
  8. Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard. “It’s Wanting to Know That Makes Us Matter” 56:58
  9. Literature, politics, and the future of the humanities 1:03:25
  10. John Mullan. What makes Jane Austen great? 1:11:42
  11. Rebecca Lowe: the container theory of time in On the Calculation of Volume 1:11:14
  12. Peter Pan video 17:45
  13. Shanon Chamberlain: what is a novel? 53:27
  14. Rhodri Lewis: Shakespearean Tragedy 1:22:35
  15. Video of my discussion with Catherine Lacey about Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea 48:33
  16. Frances Wilson: T.S. Eliot is stealing my baked beans. 1:05:41
  17. Victoria Moul. Poetry for life. 1:03:45
  18. Lamorna Ash. Don't Forget We're Here Forever 1:07:33
  19. Helen Castor: imagining life in the fourteenth century. 1:11:54
  20. Clare Carlisle: George Eliot's Double Life. 1:21:19
  21. Matt Yglesias: reading books makes me feel calmer. 1:17:51
  22. Katherine Dee. Finding life where others don't. 54:22
  23. Agnes Callard: what is the value of fiction? 1:06:35
  24. The twenty best English poets 1:40:13
  25. Natasha Joukovsky: literature, capitalism, and Jane Austen. 1:08:59
  26. Is Atlas Shrugged the new vibe? 1:46:38
  27. Tyler Cowen: Trump's DOGE team should read Shakespeare. 1:09:00
  28. Brandon Taylor: I want to bring back all of what a novel can do. 1:02:06
  29. Zena Hitz: reading the Great Books 1:01:12
  30. Marion Turner: Chaucer's world 1:01:15
  31. Naomi Kanakia: How Great are the Great Books? 51:25
  32. Catherine Lacey: internet geography 1:25:48
  33. Nabeel Qureshi: literature requires the fuller engagement of your soul. 1:12:57
  34. Hollis Robbins: literature makes you a mind reader 50:44
  35. James Marriott. The value of being pretentious and the importance of the emotions to the intellect. 1:00:51
  36. A.N. Wilson. Walking in mysteries. 44:41
  37. Tyler Cowen: reading John Stuart Mill 42:39
  38. Zadie Smith and the revenge of beauty 11:24
  39. Noah Smith interview 1:05:41
  40. Anna Gát, startup founder and late bloomer 1:16:16
  41. Robin Hanson, interview 1:25:15
  42. Sarah Harkness, late bloomer 44:53
  43. Helen Lewis interview
  44. Charles Moore interview 37:51