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One of the architectural features I enjoy the most are Dutch gables. In London, you can see an especially good stepped gable on Lisle Street behind Leicester Square or enjoy the "Pont Street Dutch" style in Chelsea. (I especially love the south porch of S

I just visited Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen. It is a really wonderful building. I have had relatively few architectural experiences that interesting. It is a style you might call "Gothic modernism", with the features of the gothic in the style of the

It is said that literature is universal and it is said that literature is particular. Sometimes it is said that literature is universal through its particulars. All of this treats literature as commentary and representation, separate from humans the way h

The sky was an endless blue as we drove out to the part of Virginia where you begin to see vultures circling on the warm summer air. As part of our immersion into American life, we were going to a demolition derby. The only thing I have seen like this is

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, former Director of Strategy to Rishi Sunak, has proposed that the copyright on British composers like Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, should be extended and the revenue given to charities. (The royalties from Vaughan Williams a

Bullet point summaries of remarks given by Patrick Collison about beauty at a recent conference, as reported here. I love these comments and would point to Ruskin's Edinburgh Lectures as one answer to the problem. (I wrote about them here, but it is paywa

NADWORNY: What made you want to memorize so much Shakespeare?

an experiment

In the life of a man about who more has been written than almost any other, it is the gaps that most intrigue.