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The Common Reader

Henry Oliver

Literary discussion www.commonreader.co.uk

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