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Summer 2026 Armchair Notes (opens the original)
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On Pascal, Pensées & Pens (opens the original)
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Dostoevsky Puts The Court On Trial (opens the original)
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How I Write on Vacation in Michigan (opens the original)
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Live: Middlemarch, Books III & IV (opens the original)
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Thanks to everyone who tuned into our live discussion of Middlemarch Books III & IV. Here I walk you through the story line for the three main couples which are developed in these books: Fred & Mary, Rosamund & Lydgate, and of course Dorothea & Casaubon. We look at: how families can be bound together by the necessity of debt; how flirtation can both order and distort our perception of reality; and what people might do with the isolation and misery they experience in a bad marriage. I explore Eli
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