All Episodes

Adam Zagajewski

Frank Norris, McTeague

Robert Frost, ”Home Burial”

Don Quixote

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

”As Kingfishers Catch Fire...”, a poem by GM Hopkins

Hamlet

How to Enjoy Poetry, and Why

The Upanishads

The Book of Chuang Tzu

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

Dante, Paradiso

Dante, Purgatory

Dante, Inferno

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," and more.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Bob Dylan

The Bhagavad Gita

John Steinbeck, The Pearl

Masterpieces of World Literature, Final Thoughts

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Part 2

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1

Shakespeare, As You Like It

Camus, The Plague, Part 2

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Camus, the Myth of Sisyphus, and The Plague, part 1

Robert Frost 2

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Charlie Chaplin, The Kid

Robert Frost 1

Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor, 2

Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor, 1

Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Derek Walcott 2

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Derek Walcott, part 1

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 3

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 2

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1

Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III

Wahmanholm, Redmouth

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Wisława Szymborska, part 2

King Lear, Act 5

King Lear, Act 4

King Lear, Act 3

King Lear, Act 2

Wisława Szymborska, part 1

King Lear, Act 1

How to Read, and Why: Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

E. M. Forster, Passage to India

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Kawabata, Snow Country

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Shakespeare: Four Soliloquies

Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be: a Close Reading

Andrew Marvell

John Keats

Tomas Tranströmer

Emily Dickinson (ENGL 669)

Emily Dickinson (ENGL 218)

Seamus Heaney, part 2

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

Seamus Heaney, Part 1

H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, Part 2

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, Part 1

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Part 2

W. B. Yeats

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Part 1

Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Part 2

Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Part 1

Zbigniew Herbert Part 2

Nabokov Part 2

Wallace Stevens

Zbigniew Herbert

The Poetry of Czesław Miłosz.

Nabokov's Memory

David Foster Wallace on a Cruise

David Foster Wallace at the State Fair