Happy New Year!
Hello – we’re back with the first podcast of 2009! To kick off the new year, we have some truly stunning “must-read” book recommendations for you – there’s no better way to profitably use up those...
View ArticleAs Good As Tolstoy
We continue our new year list of once-in-a-lifetime “must-read” books, as recommended by John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Today’s featured work is a South American...
View ArticleThe Blue Flower
John Simopoulos is here again to talk about his personal all-time favorite reads – today’s featured author is Penelope Fitzgerald, and John’s recommendations are The Blue Flower and The Beginning of...
View ArticleAusterlitz
“The most amazing single book that I know.” The words of John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, talking about today’s featured book - W. G. Sebald‘s Austerlitz – rare...
View ArticleThe Lessons of Haggis
To conclude our week’s worth of all-time great reads, selected by John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, we end on a note of sublime levity: today’s’s featured author is...
View ArticleRemnants of a Quiet Life
John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, is with us again today in an occasional but delightful series we’re running this summer that we’re calling “Books That Matter”....
View ArticleThe Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
We’re back with another in our occasional summer series of Books That Matter, chosen and discussed by John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Today, we’re talking about “a...
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