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Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

Literary Hub
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another.
5 months ago

Samuel Johnson: ‘My biggest fashion crime? I had to wear pink lycra for a year’

The Guardian
The Secret Life of Us star talks about his famous unicycle ride, his most prized possession and getting over his lifelong phobia of hospitals.
4 months ago

Freya Johnston · Own your ignorance: Samuel Johnson’s Criticism

London Review of Books
The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought by Philip Smallwood. Cambridge, 219 pp., £85, September 2023, 978 1 009 36999
5 months ago

Kevin Johnson Obituary (1972-2024) - New Orleans, LA

NOLA.com
Kevin Louis Johnson passed away on September 28, 2024, at the age of 52, born to the late Samuel Johnson, Sr & Ozell Johnson Brumfield,...
1 week ago

How 18thC Scottish teacher stunned Dr Johnson by teaching deaf pupils to 'hear with the eye'

The Scotsman
Dr Samuel Johnson, not known for being impressed by anything Scottish, visited Braidwood's Academy in 1773 and declared that Edinburgh...
1 week ago

"Close to the bone": Samuel Johnson on 'The Hospital: In The Deep End'

SBS Australia
The powerful new documentary series, also featuring Costa Georgiadis and Melissa Leong, goes behind the headlines to look at our health...
4 months ago

Samuel Johnson in Love

The New Yorker
The historian who sets out to write a new biography of Samuel Johnson is in more or less the same position as someone who sets out to write...
190 months ago

Who was Samuel Johnson, what did he do, why is he so important?

The Independent
Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English wit and author of the Dictionary of the English Language.
84 months ago

10 Facts About Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

Mental Floss
'Dictionary of the English Language,' published in 1755, remained the foremost dictionary of British English until the early 1900s when the...
23 months ago

Lives of Johnson (Published 2009)

The New York Times
Samuel Johnson is one of those figures whom everyone quotes and no one reads. Google brings up the “Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page,” “Samuel...
188 months ago