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Oct 9, 2026
Larkin’s Anthology. An Extract from Dana Gioia’s New Catalogue.
Oct 7, 2026
James Marriott and the Death of Civilization
Oct 6, 2026
John Locke: the Playful Philosopher
Oct 2, 2026
Sublimation in Middlemarch
Sep 29, 2026
AI will be much better than you at doing taxes or whatever, but there’s no point in having it read Tolstoy for you
Sep 28, 2026
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal, by William Wordsworth
Sep 27, 2026
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Sep 24, 2026
Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows
Sep 24, 2026
Before the ripened field the reapers stand
Sep 22, 2026
Tolkien in Poets’ Corner
Sep 19, 2026
My plea to English students.
Sep 16, 2026
There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one.
Sep 15, 2026
My new essay about Samuel Johnson
Sep 14, 2026
Can phones explain PISA?
Sep 12, 2026
AI and the future of the humanities
Sep 11, 2026
What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense.
Sep 8, 2026
Will the end of reading be the end of democracy too?
Sep 3, 2026
Finding Emily
Sep 2, 2026
Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That?
Sep 1, 2026
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