Well-Read Overnight : The Eight Books That You Can Read in One Sitting and Impress People With at Dinner Parties Forever More
By Charlotte Harris Some say you should always read for pleasure (and they’re right), but there’s another, much shallower, reason to get reading – and that’s for status. Yes, of course it’s silly and elitist to base our judgments of others on their knowledge of Russian Literature or Greek Mythology, but this bad habit doesn’t […]
Favourite Reads of 2024
Last year I read about fifty books – and the vast majority of them were just fine. As my mother would say, they kept me quiet. I’m all for books that can pass the time on a dreary Sunday afternoon, but here is a short list of the books that did better than keep me […]
The Most Heartbreaking Line of Dialogue Ever Written
by Charlotte Harris The Most Heartbreaking Line of Dialogue Ever Written : How Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman Reveals the Human Tragedy of Late Capitalism Over the course of just six weeks in the Spring of 1948 Arthur Miller produced, in my opinion, the greatest play of the twentieth century. Centred on the Loman family of […]
