Fortnightly 167

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Fortnightly 167 is now out. Leading is my essay on the book of the moment, Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Lots of opinions around at the moment, but my perspective was as an English teacher. Also Thi Bui’s graphic novel The Best We Could Do, the new Mayfair Library in Kilkenny, the English teach-meet I ran this week, American Fiction/Erasure, Helen Lewis and more.

Plus a poll: which is Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy?

167a: Anemoia, and a small generosity of time. by Julian Girdham

Sorry, a tiny glitch means you get two copies this morning. This (identical) version is the one online at Substack.

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And the Audio Corner this time features Gerard Manley Hopkins.