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Henry Oliver on a Singular Way of Seeing the World, His Top-5 Novelists, Shakespeare, Late-Bloomers, More

If you have been around Substack long, there’s a good chance you’ve run into Henry Oliver. If so, count yourself blessed. Not only is Henry relentlessly interesting, his enthusiasm for his subjects frequently proves infectious. And those subjects range far and wide: Literature forms a common theme, but his orbit encompasses self-invention, AI, history, British poli…