Tag: Novels
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The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025. – by Henry Oliver
In no special order and not necessarily published recently. — Read on www.commonreader.co.uk/p/the-books-i-enjoyed-most-this-year-4c3
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How harmful is the decline in long-form reading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
A second and more pessimistic diagnosis is that print and reading culture has been hanging by a thread, and current and pending technological advances are about to give that thread its final cut. The intellectual and cultural apocalypse is near. Even if your family thinks of itself as well-educated, your kids will grow up unable…
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Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?
In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes. We had one for a while. But round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority, and the burden of finding meaning shifted…