Writer Henry Oliver joins the Western Canon Book Club series for a salon about three unusual Shakespearean kings. What do Hamlet, Prospero, and Richard III have in common? They are all inadequate rulers. Prospero abandoned his dukedom for his library, Richard III is a criminal tyrant, and Hamlet is impolitic. Taken from three different stages…
Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about the birth of Romanticism. Shakespeare's biggest influence was on the Romantics, the two generations of European…
Discover the world between pages. Join the OSV Community Book Club! We'll explore books often mentioned by our founder and CEO, Jim O'Shaughnessy, and his guests on the Infinite Loops podcast.…
Join by three guests who organize with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), about their recently released guide to worker organizing: Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer's Handbook—Daphna Thier, organizer…
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series is a masterpiece of utopian worldbuilding. The author is a historian and professor of Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Humanist studies, and she uses those ideals to build a vast and beautiful future. Let's talk about each element of the Terra Ignota world, compare them to those Enlightenment ideals of the past, and discuss…
Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about one of the greatest ever novels. Jane Austen is often seen as a writer of romantic comedies and social…
Discover the world between pages. Join the OSV Community Book Club! We'll explore books often mentioned by our founder and CEO, Jim O'Shaughnessy, and his guests on the Infinite Loops podcast.…
Join Romina Sarmiento, a distinguished political scientist, and Eloy Fisher, an economist and sociologist, for a FREE salon on leadership and policy inspired by Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin…
Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about the birth of Romanticism. Turgenev's greatest novel is one of the greatest Russian novels of the…
Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Leah and Astra together developed the first in-depth examination and intellectual history of solidarity. We will discuss the…
In this first salon, we will be discussing the book at a meta level. We will be discussing the author, George Saunders, the introduction to the book, and if we…
Join Charlene Putney to delve into the life of Ivan Denisovich as we continue our trip down Western Canon Book Club series. This is the perfect book club read: it's…
