Fortnightly 178

This morning’s Fortnightly, the 178th since 2016, is the penultimate one this year, with next week an early issue of 179 so you can do your Christmas shopping: Books of the Year.

Today, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These - contingency and decision, linking King Lear, Brian Klaas’s Fluke, Robert Frost and Maud Gonne. Teaching and Learning from Conor Murphy, Alan Gorman and Natalie Wexler. Katja Hoyer on Shakespeare in Germany. Bennie Kara on a tragic loss. Anita Brookner. And, surprisingly, Philip Larkin wishes us a Happy Christmas.

And a 25% voucher for a year’s sub: redeem by December 31st.

178: Just another tapestry by Julian Girdham

Richard Flanagan, King Lear, Brian Klaas, Claire Keegan and Oprah Winfrey, Maud Gonne, and Philip Larkin's Christmas.

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