Discussion salon, hosted by Henry Oliver, about a recent Belarusian novel translated from the Russian, Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko. Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievitch said, "If you want to get inside the head of modern, young Russia, read Filipenko." This is Filipenko's only novel translated into English. Red Crosses tells the story of Russia from…
Boswell's Life of Johnson is one of the greatest biographies ever written. It's a vast, vivid, precise account of the character of one of the great intellects and personalities of the…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…
Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure…
Henry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and niceties. The first session is about lyric poetry, focusing on its structure. We will do a close reading of 'Fire and Ice' by Robert Frost,…
Henry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and niceties.…
Henry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and niceties.…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát and writer Henry Oliver for a fireside chat about reason, faith, and everything in between. Is New Atheism dead? One of the central figures of the movement, Richard Dawkins, took unexpected turn and declared himself a "secular Christian." More recently, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a well-known, self-described "infidel" championing secular ideals,…
