All Episodes

L. Napoleon and Mephistopheles: The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

XLIX. The Most Righteous and Appalling: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

XLVIII. The Ways of White Folks: Passing by Langston Hughes

XLVII. The Misfit and the Grandmother: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

XLVI. Touching Grass Is Not Enough: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà

XLV. Waves of Violence: Barn Burning by William Faulkner

XLIV. El llano en llamas: The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo

XLIII. Not a Podcast: Not a River by Selva Almada

XLII. Liars and Mothers: The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

XLI. What Women Most Desire: The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffery Chaucer

XL. RIP Chaucer, You Would've Loved the Godfather: The Miller's Tale and the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

XXXIX. Whan that Aprill: The Canterbury Tales (Opening Prologue and the Knight's Tale) by Geoffery Chaucer

XXXVIII. Is-slottet: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

XXXVII. I Was Taking a Drive: A Shining by Jon Fosse

XXXVI. Bro!: Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

XXXV. Ethics and Aesthetics: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

XXXIII. How Did they ever Make a Podcast of Lolita: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

XXXII. It Gives Two Turns!: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

XXXI. The Labyrinth of Inhumanity: The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

XXX. Rage (or What is Achilles’s Problem?): the Iliad by Homer

XXIX. Desperate and Visceral: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Bonus: The House of Asterion by Jorges Luis Borges

XXVIII. Aztec Eyes: Axolotl by Julio Cortázar.

XXVII. Of Things Transformed: The Metamorphoses by Ovid

XXVI.The Meme-morphosis: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

XXV. The Duty of Gender: The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

XXIV. Let’s Get Motherly: Medea by Euripides

XXIII. Murder to Murder: Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem

XXII. The Phoenician Sailor and the Hyacinth Girl: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.

XXI. What Helps Us Remember: Potiki by Patricia Grace

XX. 1647, Santiago: The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist

XIX. Dreaming Freedom: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

XVIII. Manuscripts Don’t Burn: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

XVII. What’s your sign?: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

XVI. Purity and Perversion: Sanctuary by William Faulkner

XV. Will There Be Another Spring?: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout

XIV. A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

XIII. On the Horizon: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

XII. Let’s Get… Platonic?: Symposium by Plato

XI. Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

X. Fire and Madness: Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

IX. Ooh, It Gets Dark!: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

VIII. How to Navigate the Sea: Persuasion by Jane Austen

VII. Subversive Voyeurism: The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras

VI. Go West, Irish Man: The Dead by James Joyce

V. Make Your Marriage Bed and Lie in it: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

IV. Let’s Get Bacchic: The Bacchae by Euripides

III: Duties and Resemblances: Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

II: Heritage (or Raising the Bar): the Odyssey by Homer

I. Seaweed and the Abyss: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño