With a new feature, The Yale Review has become an even more wonderful place to go. Here, the announcement by Meghan O’Rourke of a weekly column called Annotating the Archives; archives that really are a treasure trove of 20th century literature and ideas, and which deserve to be brought to the fore and presented with perhaps a differentiated slant or emphasis – and by fine contemporary writers.
An absolute gem as opener: Claire Messud on ‘the common reader’, as identified by Virginia Woolf and as represented through her essay contributions to The Yale Review, including ‘How Should One Read a Book?’ – fittingly the concluding essay of The Common Reader – Second Series.