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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, writer, professor of English literature and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Look Closer to be published on 6 November.
Joined May 2022
Look Closer by @RobertDFBooks is already looking like one of the books of the year. Each page demands annotation.
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Happy publication day, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst! 🥳 I recommend Look Closer to anyone interested in how literature works (and how being human works). It is the perfect present for any A-Level or undergraduate English lit students, too! Go go go! 👉 https://t.co/vTF8XNuhTV
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Well this is a jolly nice way to start the week (and to end a review)... "This is a wonderful book, packed with detail and knowledge but also intuition, warmth and infectious enthusiasm” #LookCloser.
literaryreview.co.uk
Lucy Lethbridge: Between the Lines - Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Thrilled to receive this endorsement from the brilliant Sir Stephen Fry, a generous reader as well as a writer with a brain the size of a planet. LOOK CLOSER: HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF READING is out this Thursday. https://t.co/LbOu8P65no
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Wonderful review of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's wonderful book on How to Get More Out of Reading. "it is like walking behind a wise old naturalist who, in leisurely flipping over rocks, reveals a whole other reality beyond the immediately visible." https://t.co/e2yKTXYPAp
spectator.com
Few readers can claim to be what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called ‘Mogul diamonds’ – those who not only ‘profit by what they read’, but ‘enable others to profit by it also’. If such people were rare in...
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My @spectator review of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading — in which, like a wise old naturalist leisurely flipping over rocks, he reveals a whole other reality beyond the immediately visible:
spectator.com
Few readers can claim to be what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called ‘Mogul diamonds’ – those who not only ‘profit by what they read’, but ‘enable others to profit by it also’. If such people were rare in...
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Coming on November 6… LOOK CLOSER: HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF READING (Fern Press), available from your local bookshop.
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As my new book (out on Nov 6) is basically a mixture of serious criticism and silly jokes, I am now kicking myself for not calling it Leavis and Butthead.
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.@fernbooks has acquired Look Closer by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. The book will be published on 6th November 2025 👇
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Fern Press has acquired Look Closer by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.
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Although they never met, a new exhibition puts Austen and Turner in conversation with each other. ✍️ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://t.co/3QdCPWhLph
spectator.com
History is full of odd couples: famous but unrelated people who happen to have been born in the same year. 1809: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. 1926: Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe. Yet...
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Ta-dah… My new book, coming in November. (Pictured: Marilyn Monroe getting lost in Joyce’s Ulysses, or possibly discovering herself there.) Details on Instagram at robertdouglasfairhurst and fernpress.
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Dickens was as confused about the world and his place in it as most of his readers. The key difference was that he transformed his confusion into art. ✍️ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://t.co/vD37otf272
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Sex, sensible clothes, and tea at 4pm every day: my piece about a very British cult.
telegraph.co.uk
In the 1840s, a rogue Anglican priest claimed to be the second coming of Christ – and set up The Abode of Love to prepare for the Apocalypse
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Has anyone tried turning America off and then turning it back on again?
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'I sat down to watch twenty-five of the top-grossing Hollywood comedies from the past thirty years. It wasn’t as much fun as I’d hoped.' Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Funny business https://t.co/LVX9Vc1Gz6
the-tls.com
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines the evolving face of Hollywood comedies
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Olé Watkins (copyright every headline writer if he scores the winner on Sunday).
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