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Ten Bookshops for the Serious Reader: A Pilgrim's Guide
These ten shops are offered as a curated gathering, organized around a conviction that they belong in conversation with each other and with the reader…
May 4
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Michael S. Rose
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Architecture and the Great American Reading Room
Andrew Carnegie built 2,509 libraries. Each one made a claim about the dignity of the person who might walk through its doors. We have spent seventy…
Apr 30
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Michael S. Rose
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Used Bookshops and the Culture We Are Losing
On Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, and the Wunderkammer principle applied to a hundred yards of Victorian shopfronts in the heart of London.
Apr 27
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Michael S. Rose
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The Lost Art of the Commonplace Book
Readers, don’t just wander from book to book like a nomad. Gather what is best. Write it down. Return to it. Make it yours.
Apr 13
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Michael S. Rose
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The Currency of Contemporary Despair
The greatest novels have always explored suffering, loss, and moral ambiguity. But there's a crucial difference between examining life's difficulties…
Aug 11, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Seven Essential Books for Understanding Poetry Memorization
The child who memorizes poetry inherits not merely specific texts but an entire way of engaging with language, with memory, with cultural inheritance…
Jul 7, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Lessons from the Dystopian Imagination
Huxley imagined tyranny through pleasure, Orwell through pain, and Lewis through the corruption of science and language. What emerges from their…
Jul 3, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Seven Essential Books for Guarding Grammar
The books I recommend here are not sacred texts, but they are good guides. Each performs a noble service: they protect the structure of thought and…
Apr 18, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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The Formative Books of Abraham Lincoln
An education that bears striking resemblance to the curricula of American classical schools: narrow in volume, deep in substance, grounded in language…
Apr 15, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Seven Essential Books for Understanding Classical Education
Admit it: you're curious about this thing called classical education, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. Fret no more! I've put together…
Apr 7, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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A Cartography of the Inexhaustible: On Re-reading Great Literature
Some works of literature demand not just reading, but rereading—slowly and deliberately. They are not to be consumed and set aside but to be lived with…
Mar 10, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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C.S. Lewis’s Advice to Young Writers
The teacher must insist that students read beyond themselves, that they wander into linguistic territories unknown, that they subject their prose to the…
Feb 25, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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