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The celebrated architect enjoyed two periods of profound productivity — some 50 years apart| www.ft.com
The celebrated architect enjoyed two periods of profound productivity — some 50 years apart| www.ft.com
essays about Shakespeare. Click to read The Common Reader, by Henry Oliver, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.commonreader.co.uk
Marxists be damned. I'm with Bradley.| www.commonreader.co.uk
I'll update this as we go...| www.commonreader.co.uk
Lots of people don’t believe in second acts, second lives, mid-life resurrections. As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it in The Last Tycoon, published in 1941: “There are no second acts in American lives.” But his absolutism was being embarrassed at that very moment: 1941 was also the year that Dwight D. Eisenhower became a late bloomer. Before the war came to America, Eisenhower had thought he would retire, without ever having seen either war service or getting a chance to exercise his talents...| UnHerd
The best Shakespeare biographies, recommended by Columbia professor and Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro.| Five Books
