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Colin Quinn on Incels, Woke Activists, and Peaking at 14
And why the comic still cries laughing at ‘A Confederacy of Dunces.’
January 29, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
Dante: The Most Famous, Least Read Poet
And how a 700-year-old poem helped a widower rebuild his life.
January 22, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
America’s Most Righteous War Produced Its Best Anti-War Novel
Why decorated veteran Elliot Ackerman loves ‘Catch-22.’
January 15, 2026
Shilo Brooks
54M
Why ‘Middlemarch’ Changed This Catholic Priest’s Life
The case for reading this 900-page Victorian novel.
January 8, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
The Lost Art of Taking the Piss with Richard Dawkins
Why P.G. Wodehouse is the funniest writer in the English language.
December 18, 2025
Shilo Brooks
39M
Living Through the Fall of a Regime
Historian Dominic Green on ‘The Leopard’ and elite corruption.
December 11, 2025
Shilo Brooks
1HR 3M
Read This Book Instead of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
Ryan Holiday unpacks the philosophy of ‘The Moviegoer.’
December 4, 2025
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
George Orwell’s Lessons on the Class Divide
Why the rich and poor struggle to understand each other.
November 20, 2025
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
What ‘The Great Gatsby’ Taught Fareed Zakaria About America
The journalist discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald soon after immigrating from India.
November 13, 2025
Shilo Brooks
59M
Nick Cave on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written
The rock and roll legend breaks down ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio.’
October 30, 2025
The Free Press
Nick Cave on ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’
How a children's book helped the rock and roll legend grieve his son.
October 30, 2025
Shilo Brooks
55M
Why We Still Need Plato
Dr. Cornel West says Plato’s ‘Republic’ is the antidote to nihilism.
October 23, 2025
Shilo Brooks
52M
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