Book Club

Dante’s Divine Comedy is finished, and I’m wondering: Should we read classics because they’re classics? Even if they’re not interesting to us, personally?

The Death of Socrates is a critical part of Western classical literature, but that high honour comes with some heavy content to get through.

I wrote about my thoughts on Dante’s Inferno recently, as read The Divine Comedy. I’ve finished the second section, Purgatorio, and I have some thoughts.

Dante is lost and beset by wild beasts. On the point of death, he is rescued by the shade of Virgil. But Virgil has been sent to take Dante through the Inferno

The reading challenge has taken on a particularly Ancient theme this year. There’s still a few to come, but here is one of the last: The Final Pagan Generation.

I’m going to (try) to review the Greatest Adventure Story of All Time, AKA The Bible. So strap in for an utterly inadequate summary of this amazing book.

I did not expect this collection of rather murderous Greek plays by Euripides to be relatable. But these four plays made easy and interesting reading.

There’s more to the coronation than the king! This book outlines the depth of symbolism in this tradition. Read this book before we lose touch with them.

In Generations, Howe and Strauss put forward broad stroke predictions for the future of America. But how accurate are they now, 30 years on?

A wealthy woman quarrels with her philandering husband before heading for the French Riviera with jewel case in tow. But tragedy awaits on the Blue Train.