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What does reading for pleasure mean?
the fun of Lolita?
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Rhodri Lewis: Shakespearean Tragedy
and the future of the humanities
Sep 25
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Does anyone even know whether students can still read a lot?
just accept uncertainty
Sep 24
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Adam Smith's Burkean view of social cohesion
bands of love and affection and mutual good offices
Sep 23
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Children need more reading time, education needs less politics
This is just common sense
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Two hundred years of the RSL
A new prize and digitised archives
Sep 22
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
by Rhodri Lewis
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The online humanities revival continues apace
Kyla Scanlon explains the world with Lewis, Canetti, Girard, Tolkien
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Late bloomers
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You make your own luck.
No, really. It's actually kind of true.
May 4
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Does the flame of genius burn past 30?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
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Launch day for Second Act!
What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.
May 9, 2024
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Misusing Mill's ideas to advocate for assisted suicide
Human beings owe to each other help to distinguish the better from the worse
Sep 17
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Denmark exceeds Lilliput
They took someone's baby away for no reason
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The Sound of Music's 60th anniversary: a masterpiece that celebrates civilization.
Lamenting the last golden years...
Sep 16
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How the CIA secretly funded Encounter
Stephen Spender: unwitting spy
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Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern
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Shakespeare's Characters and the Wheel of Fire
Two Approaches to Shakespeare in 20th-Century Criticism
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John Pistelli
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Twenty-five facts about the Merchant of Venice
A Grail quest, a romantic comedy, Shakespeare's most performed play
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Shakespeare's experiments in King John
An important transition play
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Did Shakespeare crib from Dante?
New evidence
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