All Episodes

Discussing Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco

Audio Essay 80 - Jordan Peterson's Appalling Relationship Advice

Audio Essay 79 - Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Book Discussion 2 - Talking The JFK Assassination with Steve Donoghue

Audio Essay 78 - A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Discussing HRW's Israel Report with Isaac Fishman

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Rabbi Elhanan Miller

Audio Essay 77 - Encountering Buddhism from a Jewish Perspective

Audio Essay 76 - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Audio Essay 75 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Discussing QAnon with a Conspiracy Theorist

Tag Episode 7 – Booktube Backstage Tag

Audio Essay 74 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Part 2

Audio Essay 73 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Part 1

Audio Essay 72 - The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen

Audio Essay 71 - The Nuremberg Trials

Audio Essay 70 - The Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges

Audio Essay 69 - The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade

Audio Essay 68 - Molloy by Samuel Beckett Part 2

Audio Essay 67 - The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

Audio Essay 66 - Molloy by Samuel Beckett Part 1

Audio Essay 65 - Reflections on Four Years of Trumpism

Author Interview 2 - The Philosophy of Rabbi Dr. Zohar Atkins

Audio Essay 64 - Symbols

Audio Essay 63 - Ararat, Louise Glück

Audio Essay 62 - The Philosophy of Dr. Seuss

Audio Essay 61 - The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges

Book Discussion 1 - Talking The Road to Serfdom with David Murphy (debate)

Audio Essay 60 - The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges

Audio Essay 59 - Why Be Well Read?

Audio Essay 58 - Moby Dick Part 7

Audio Essay 57 - John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I of X

Audio Essay 56 - Moby Dick Part 6

Audio Essay 55 - Moby Dick Part 5

Audio Essay 54 - Moby Dick Part 4

Audio Essay 53 - Moby Dick Part 3

Audio Essay 52 - Moby Dick Part 2

Audio Essay 51 - Moby Dick Part 1

Audio Essay 50 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 7

Audio Essay 49 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 6

Tag Episode 6 - Summer School Book Tag

Author Interview 1 - The Poetry of Zohar Atkins

Audio Essay 48 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 5

Audio Essay 47 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 4

Audio Essay 46 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 3

Audio Essay 45 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 2

Audio Essay 44 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 1

Audio Essay 43 - Racism in America

Audio Essay 42 - On Faith

Audio Essay 41 - My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman

Audio Essay 40 - Lilah Tov Good Night, Ben Gundersheimer

Audio Essay 39 - Murke's Collected Silences, Heinrich Böll

Audio Essay 38 - Macbeth Act II, Scene 2

Audio Essay 37 - Pharmakon

Audio Essay 36 - The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis

Tag Episode 5 - The Age of Extremity Book Tag

Tag Episode 4 - The Coronavirus Book Tag

Audio Essay 35 - The Ivan's Nightmare Chapter From The Brothers Karamazov

Audio Essay 34 - "I Measure Every Grief I Meet," Emily Dickinson

Tag Episode 3 - The Sex in Literature Tag

Audio Essay 33 - September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden

Audio Essay 32 - Roger Malvin's Burial, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Audio Essay 31 - The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus and Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Tag Episode 2 - Top 10 Nonfiction Books Tag

Audio Essay 30 - Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault

Audio Essay 29 - Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

Audio Essay 28 - "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," Emily Dickinson

Audio Essay 27 - The Most Disturbing Chapter in The Brother's Karamazov

Audio Essay 26 - They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer

Audio Essay 25 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 5

Tag Episode 1 - 28 Random Questions

Audio Essay 24 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 4

Audio Essay 23 - Who Sold Joseph Down to Egypt? (Genesis 37 and 38)

Audio Essay 22 - Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Audio Essay 21 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 3

Audio Essay 20 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 2

Audio Essay 19 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 1

Audio Essay 18 - Jorge Louis Borges, The Zahir

Audio Essay 17 - The Artificial N*****, Flannery O'Connor

Audio Essay 16 - Analysis of Plato's The Euthyphro

Audio Essay 15 - John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 3 (On His Blindness)

Audio Essay 14 - Just some poems by Jorge Louis Borges

Audio Essay 13 - Moby. Dick.

Audio Essay 12 - The Brutality of American Literature

Audio Essay 11 - The Most Startling Sentence in Nabokov's Lolita

Audio Essay 10 - The Philosophy of Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

Audio Essay 9 - Societies of Blood and Societies of Sex

Audio Essay 8 - The Epigraphs of Blood Meridian

Audio Essay 7 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

Audio Essay 6 - Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman

Audio Essay 5 - Sam Harris Ezra Klein Debate Summary

Audio Essay 4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

Audio Essay 3 - Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Audio Essay 2 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

Audio Essay 1 - The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith