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My Sons Read ‘Middlemarch’ and Sided Against Dorothea
What Do Teenage Boys Make of the Complexities of George Eliot’s Eternal Classic?
Sep 5
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Books: Indispensable When You’re Indisposed
The One Place You Really Need a Good Book—And Several to Try for Yourself
Sep 2
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August 2026
Bookish Diversions: Is Anyone Reading Anything?
Bogus Reading Crisis Stats, Tedious Literary Fiction, 3 Elements of the Humanities
Aug 29
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Joel J Miller
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Can We Be Honest? The Tricky Side of the Truth
A Conversation with Philosopher Christian B. Miller on Honesty, Sincerity, and BS
Aug 26
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Joel J Miller
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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto’s ‘Tokyo Express’
A Perfectly Plotted Mystery and an Author Who Couldn’t Deliver It
Aug 22
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That’s the Deal: What Rankles You Most About AI Prose?
How the Gift Economy Explains Our Disgust with LLM Writing
Aug 19
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How Books Can Build a World and Shape a Culture
Joel Miller Talks about his recent book, The Idea Machine
Published on Weavers of Story
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Aug 17
I Quit One of Literature’s Greatest Novels
Some Questions to Ponder When a Book Just Doesn’t Work for You
Aug 15
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Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
Augustine, Jerome, Montaigne, and Zora Neale Hurston on the Educational Virtue of Following Your Whims
Aug 12
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Too Much to Read? How Reading Habits Change
A Narrow Review of Joel Halldorf’s ‘Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age’
Aug 8
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He Sold 55 Million Books, but His Government Wouldn’t Let Him Publish
Japan’s Greatest (and Definitely Latest) Export—Detective Writer Seishi Yokomizo
Aug 5
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All the Horrifying Things We Do to Our Books
How Much Damage Can You Do to a Book and Still Live with Yourself?
Aug 1
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