Episodes
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: E.M. Forster’s Howards End
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red
Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Anne Carson’s classic novel in verse...
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Elizabeth Bishop's Questions of Travel and Geography III
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Susan Sontag's In America
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Gore Vidal's Burr
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Émile Zola's Nana
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot and Sarrasine
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: George Sand's Indiana
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Stendhal's The Red and the Black
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Paradiso
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Purgatorio
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Inferno
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante
Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This free bonus episode, the prologue to a three-part series on the Divine Comedy, is about the life,...
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Virgil's Aeneid
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (3)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (2)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (3)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (2)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (4)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (3)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (2)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Toni Morrison's Paradise
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Don DeLillo's The Names
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Saul Bellow's Herzog
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Jean Toomer's Cane
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, which is free in its entirety, is the fourth in a sequence on the American novel. It concerns O...
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: John Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: John Milton's Paradise Lost (2)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: John Milton's Paradise Lost (1)
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: John Milton's Comus, Lycidas, and Areopagitica
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