Archive - Methinks

Victorian Literature - Reading Guide #2

How to start reading Victorian Literature: novels, poetry, annotation systems, critical reading syllabus, research material, etc.

Jun 18 •

Methought - May/2025

monthly wrap-up: rereading Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot, giving Forster a second chance, humanities crisis with Kristeva, revisiting Freud's Uncanny…

Jun 2 •

May 2025

April 2025

Shakespeare's Plays - Reading Guide #1

everything you need to become an independent Shakespeare student

Apr 23 •

Methought - March/2025

Monthly wrap-up: rereading Dostoevsky, memory's power in Camus and Rohrwacher, 17th century women writers, Zweig's obssessive young men, and HAIM…

Apr 7 •

March 2025

The City that Expelled the Poets

Notes on reading Plato's Republic for the first time

Mar 24 •

Methought - February/2025

Monthly wrap-up: Oscar best picture nominees, reading Plato for fun (?), back to T.S. Eliot, and discovering the meaning of Radical Chic (2025 will be…

Mar 12 •

February 2025

Methought - January/2025

Monthly wrap-up: stories of Old New York, my first Calvino book, a disturbing portrait of conservative youth, the best Hamlet I've ever seen…

Feb 7 •

January 2025

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

a few thoughts on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innoncence

Jan 30 •

A Year in Books - 2024

Notes on my favourite books of the year (and a few books I want to read in 2025)

Jan 15 •

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