All Episodes

818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard

816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn

815 Paddy Chayefsky

814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose

813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli

812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence

811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey

810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)

809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk)

808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"

807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III

806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan

805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]

804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea

803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey

802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck

801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)

800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker

799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert

799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)

798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff

798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisited)

797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)

796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)

795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited)

794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber

793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts

792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last Book with Bruce Gordon

791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited

790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau

789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Cass Sunstein

788 John Ruskin (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Francesca Wade

787 Why Poetry with Matthew Zapruder Encore

786 Cherokee Novelist and Poet John Rollin Ridge (with Travis Franks)

785 Literature in an Age of Anti-Immigration Sentiment (with Daniel Olivas) | My Last Book with Janet Todd

784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens)

783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie

782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee)

781 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings | My Last Book with Rhodri Lewis

780 Chekhov on Writing (with Bob Blaisdell)

779 Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises (with Mike Palindrome) RECLAIMED

778 A History of Aphorisms (with James Geary) | My Last Book with Paul Chrystal

777 T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" | "The Story of the Marquis de Cressy" by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (with Kate Deimling)

776 Mary Shelley in Bath (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with D.G. Hampton

775 Celebrity Authorship in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Allison) | My Last Book with Emily Van Duyne

774 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Leo Damrosch)

773 The Films of Rob Reiner (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Matt Abrahams

772 Thucydides and The History of the Peloponnesian War (with Polly Low and Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with James West

771 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in education (with Robin Lithgow) - RECLAIMED

770 Shakespeare and Civility (with Indira Ghose) | Robert W. Service and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

769 The European Byron (with Jonathan Gross) | The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (#3 GBOAT)

768 Young James Baldwin (with Nicholas Boggs) | My Last Book with Bruce Robbins

767 A Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (with Mathelinda Nabugodi) | My Last Book with Richard Kopley

766 Gertrude Stein (with Francesca Wade) | Ruskin on the Only One Way to Get Art | My Last Book with Holly Baggett

765 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)

764 Two Thousand Years of Roman History (with Edward J. Watts) | My Last Book with Nathan Hensley

763 Emily's Desk Drawer

762 The History of the Sonnet

761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time)

760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge

759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham

758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (#5 Greatest Book of All Time)

757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)

756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | My Last Book with Jake Poller

755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric White

753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | Giving Thanks | My Last Book with Eve Dunbar

752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book with Keith Cooper

751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book with Sharmila Sen

750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein

749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark) | #7 Greatest Book of All Time

748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks

747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsky and James H. McGavran III | My Last Book with Stephanie Sandler | #8 Greatest Book of All Time

746 Wild Jane Austen (with Devoney Looser) | #9 Greatest Book of All Time

745 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Halloween Fun-Size Edition)

744 Love, Sex, and Frankenstein (with Caroline Lea) | #10 Greatest Book of All Time | My Last Book with Geoffrey Turnovsky | A Letter from a Middle School Teacher and Mom

743 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes) [RECLAIMED] | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (#11 GBOAT) | Chaucer News

742 Edgar Allan Poe (with Richard Kopley) | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (#12 GBOAT) | My Last Book with Christopher Herbert

741 Gabriela Mistral

740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (#13 GBOAT)

739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric Marshall White)

738 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (#15 Greatest Book of All Time)

737 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs

736 Jane Austen's Favorite Brother, Henry (with Christopher Herbert) | A Letter from the South of France | My Last Book with Nicholas Jenkins

735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with Graham Watson

734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literary Encyclopedia (with Tom Lutz)

733 Haruki Murakami (with Mike Palindrome | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (#17 GBOAT) | A Letter from Tehran

732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman) | Health Advice

731 The Brothers Karamazov Reclaimed (#19 Greatest Book of All Time)

730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Graham Watson) | My Last Book with Sara Charles

729 Milton the Revolutionary (with Orlando Reade) | My Last Book with Jodi Picoult | More Exciting News

728 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#20 GBOAT) | Lorraine Hansberry - RECLAIMED

727 Earthly Paradise in Old French Verse (with Jacob Abell) | My Last Book with Victorian Literature Expert Allen MacDuffie | A Dueling Neapolitan Passionate for Poetry

726 England vs France - A Literary Battle Royale (with Mike Palindrome) - RECLAIMED

725 The Trial by Franz Kafka (#21 GBOAT) | Edith Wharton and Patrick O'Brian (with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith) | An Uplifting Story

724 The Stranger by Albert Camus (#22 Greatest Book of All Time) | Christopher Isherwood (with Jake Poller) | Postcard from a Listener in Yunnan

723 The Moral Rights of Authors (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) | My Last Book with Radha Vatsal

722 Kerouac's Road - A Conversation with Ebs Burnough, Director of a New Kerouac Documentary | My Last Book with Beat Generation Expert Steven Belletto

721 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (The #23 Greatest Book of All Time)

720 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time - #24 "The Odyssey" by Homer | The Conclusion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (with Mike Palindrome)

719 "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | 25 for 25 - #25 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

718 Jim - The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) | Mark Twain's Dreams

717 Einstein and Kafka (with Ken Krimstein) | Dr Johnson Helps a Friend (and Changes the Course of Literary History) | My Last Book with Fernando Pessoa Expert Bartholomew Ryan

716 Icelandic Folk Legends (with Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir) | John le Carre at the Bodleian

715 How Did George Eliot and the Victorians Respond to Climate Collapse? (with Nathan Hensley) | People at Museums Are Losing Their Brains! | My Last Book with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas

714 The Real Charles Dickens (with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas) | Dickens and the Theatre

713 The Odyssey (with Daniel Mendelsohn) | The History of Literature Podcast Tour!

712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shakespeare's Collaboration with Marlowe

711 How Does Literature Handle Atrocities? (with Bruce Robbins) | My Last Book with Hemingway Expert Alex Vernon | Who Will Come to Jacke and Emma's Party?

710 Weird and Wonderful Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome (with Paul Chrystal) | A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT | Two Listeners Follow Their Dream (And Create Something Amazing)

709 Black American Humor (with Damon Young) | The Greatest American Joke Ever Told?

708 Science Fact and Science Fiction (with Keith Cooper) | AI Discovers a Work of Ancient Philosophy and Dreams Up a Reading List

707 Emile Zola (with Robert Lethbridge) | Graham Greene's Only Ghost Story | My Last Book with Irina Mashinski

706 Living with Jane Austen (with Janet Todd) | A Listener Changes His Life | Bored Parents

705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters)

704 Butterflies Regained

703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey

702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!

701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!

700 - Butterflies at Rest

699 Gatsby's Daisy (with Rachel Feder) | My Last Book with Francesca Peacock

698 Dante in Love (with Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio) [Ad-Free Archive Edition]

697 Race in European Fairy Tales (with Kimberly Lau) | My Last Book with Rolf Hellebust

696 John Ruskin (with Sara Atwood) | My Last Book with Collin Jennings

695 Ten Indian Classics (with Sharmila Sen) | My Last Book with Adam Smyth

694 Apocalyptic Literature (with Dorian Lynskey) | My Last Book with Charles Baxter

693 Understanding the Wonders of Nature (with Alan Lightman) | My Last Book with Alan Lightman

692 An Investigation in Chinatown (with Radha Vatsal) | The Five Books (with Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen)

691 The Making of Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson) | My Last Book with Cheryl Hopson

690 Coleridge and the Person from Porlock [Ad-Free]

689 Thomas Kyd (with Brian Vickers) | My Last Book with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder

688 Georges Simenon

687 Gatsby Turns 100 (with James West)

686 Russian Poetry After the Cold War (with Stephanie Sandler)

685 Charles Chesnutt (with Tess Chakkalakal) | My Last Book with John Goodby

684 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)

683 Marianne Moore (with Cristanne Miller)

682 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) [Ad-Free Re-Release]

681 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 3 | My Last Book by Colm Tóibín

680 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 2

679 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 1

678 Fernando Pessoa (with Bartholomew Ryan) | My Last Book with Robin Waterfield

677 Dylan Thomas (with John Goodby) | Emily Brontë and the Search for Hope

676 "Mrs Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far (with Mike Palindrome)

675 Zora Neale Hurston (with Cheryl Hopson) | Jack Kerouac's Newly Discovered Writings

674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release]

673 Edna Ferber (with Julie Gilbert) | My Last Book with Jessica Kirzane

672 The Little Review (with Holly A. Baggett) | My Last Book with Phil Jones

671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel Warner

670 The Parable

669 Obsessed with Melville (with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder) | My Last Book with Alexander Poots

668 Book and Dagger - The Scholars and Librarians Who Became Spies and Fought the Nazis (with Elyse Graham) | Jane Austen Turns 250

667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose Hill

666 "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Lev Grossman

665 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian) [Ad-Free Encore Edition]

664 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2 [Ad-Free Encore Version]

663 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 1 [Ad-Free Encore Edition]

662 Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction - Black Women Writing Under Segregation (with Eve Dunbar) | My Last Book with Deni Kasa

661 James Baldwin (with Colm Tóibín)

660 "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | My Last Book with Amelia Possanza

659 The Legend of King Arthur (with Lev Grossman)

658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie)

657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla

656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day [HOL Encore]

655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery

654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne)

653 J.D. Salinger

652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville

651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with Douglas Burton) | My Last Book with Douglas Burton

650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)

649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper

648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier

647 The Brontes [HOL Encore]

646 Discovering a Long Lost Slave Narrative (with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)

645 Richard Wright

644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto)

643 Aesop and His Fables (with Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with Boel Westin

642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro)

641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Charles) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Coggeshall

640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery)

639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Rosenberg

638 Thomas Mann

637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Fred Waitzkin

636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller)

635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman

634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown

633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer

632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon)

631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood

630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico

629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer)

628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki

627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino)

626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams

625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg)

624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro

623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics

622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)

621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees

619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding

618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon

617 Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature (with Deni Kasa) | Mike Recommends... James Baldwin! | My Last Book with Carlos Allende

616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai

615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed

614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke

613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel

612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus

611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter

610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus

609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi

608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell

607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin

606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)

605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)

604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol

603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)

602 Thomas Hardy's "Spellbound Palace," The Birthplace of the King James Bible, and a Royal Setting for Shakespeare and His Plays (with Gareth Russell) | My Last Book with Jess Cotton

601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)

600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)

599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown

598 Forgotten Women of Literature 8 - Charmian Kittredge London (with Iris Jamahl Dunkle) | What's Great About Christopher Isherwood (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Duncan Yoon

597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames

596 The Power of Stories (with J Edward Chamberlin) | Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson | Flannery O'Connor (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Shin Yu Pai

595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden

594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

593 Vladimir Propp (with Mike Palindrome) | The Russian Gothic (with Valeria Sobol) | My Last Book with Vanessa Riley

592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom Holland

591 William Wordsworth

590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter

589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with Dr Tara Bynum

588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Katherine Howe

587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan van Belle

586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jesse Kavadlo

585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book with Anne Enright

584 A Conversation with James MacManus | My Last Book with Peter K Andersson

583 Margaret Cavendish (with Francesca Peacock) | My Last Book with Patrick Whitmarsh

582 Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Myron Tuman

581 The Venerable Bede (with Michelle P. Brown) | My Last Book with Adrian Edwards

580 Thoreau at Work (with Jonathan van Belle) | My Last Book with Andrew Pettegree

579 New Year New You! Conversations with Bethanne Patrick and Aislyn Greene

578 Chapters (with Nicholas Dames) | My Last Book (with Hamid Dabashi)

Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books!

577 'Twas the Night Before Controversy - The Raging Dispute Over a Classic Christmas Poem | My Last Book (with Marion Turner)

576 Love and Art in a Time of Hate - How European Artists and Intellectuals Survived the 1930s (with Florian Illies)

575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Simon

574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane Fox

573 A Conversation with Anne Enright, Winner of the Man Booker Prize | My Last Book with Christopher Morash

572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)

571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book with Shilpi Suneja

570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe)

569 The Man with a Passion for Medieval Manuscripts (with Christopher de Hamel) | My Last Book with Maaheen Ahmed

568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel)

567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes

566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)

565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin

564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)

563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)

562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)

561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe)

560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner

558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey)

557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng)

556 The Story Behind a Children's Classic - Anna Sewell and the Writing of 'Black Beauty' (with Celia Brayfield)

555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis

554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg

553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders

552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)

551 Charlotte Lennox and The Female Quixote (Forgotten Women of Literature 8) | My Last Book with Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan

550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula

549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon)

548 Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)

547 Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (with William Egginton)

546 The Cambridge Companion to Comics (with Maaheen Ahmed) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Winkler

545 Milton's Paradise Lost - A Personal Journey (with Ed Simon)

544 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (with Mike Palindrome)

543 A Philosopher's Guide to Rome (with Scott Samuelson)

542 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James (Pt 2)

541 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James

540 A Black Queen in Exile (with Vanessa Riley) | My Last Book with Jolene Hubbs

539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome)

538 Writing Our Extinction (with Patrick Whitmarsh) | My Last Book with Christina Jarvis

537 The Persian Prince (with Hamid Dabashi)

536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams

535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes History Through Women's Eyes (with Pip Williams)

534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead

532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)

529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai) | My Last Book with Ross Benjamin

528 Literary Dublin (with Chris Morash) | A Poem by Shin Yu Pai | My Last Book with John Higgs

527 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (with Elizabeth Winkler) | My Last Book with Megan Marshall

526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt

525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo)

524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me

523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)

522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino

521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler

520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker

518 The Curse of the Marquis de Sade - A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History (with Joel Warner) | My Last Book with Diane Rayor

517 The Marquis de Sade

516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)

515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer

514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer

513 The Writers of Northern Ireland (with Alexander Poots) | My Last Book with Laura Lee

512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter

511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell

510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)

509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1)

508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris

507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams)

506 Black Shakespeare (with Ian Smith) | My Last Book with David Castillo and William Egginton

505 Ford Madox Ford (with Max Saunders) | My Last Book with Bethanne Patrick

504 Persuasion (Book Two) (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Juliette Bretan

503 Persuasion (Book One) (with Gina Buonaguro)

502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski

501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski)

500 Episode 500! Meg White, Listener Emails, Johnson and Boswell, and More! (with Margot Livesey)

499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)

498 A New Novel by a Legendary Independent Filmmaker (with John Sayles)

497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu

496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)

495 The Creative Spark (with Joe Skinner)

494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)

493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate

492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)

491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)

Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER

490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)

489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)

488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)

487 Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche (with John Higgs)

486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with Melissa J. Homestead)

485 Reading Pleasures - Everyday Black Living in Early America (with Dr Tara Bynum)

484 Reading John Milton (with Stephen Dobranski)

483 Margaret Fuller (with Megan Marshall)

482 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part Two)

481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)

480 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with Ritchie Robertson)

479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb)

478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)

477 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 2 - "The Vice of Reading")

476 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 1 - "Xingu")

475 Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (with Emma Smith)

474 Herman Melville

473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)

472 The Art of Not Knowing

471 Angels of War (with Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner

470 Two Christmas Days - A Holiday Story by Ida B. Wells

469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro)

468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)

467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)

466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)

465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)

464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years

463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)

462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel)

461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)

460 Rabindranath Tagore

459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer)

458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler)

457 The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson's Editor (The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Story) | PLUS Making (Book) Dreams Come True (with Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg)

456 Maya Angelou

455 Gustave Flaubert

454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story

453 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Dr Rae Wynn-Grant)

452 Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays)

451 Mary Shelley

450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)

448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)

447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)

446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years

445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)

444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)

443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)

442 Prince, Emperor, Sage - Bābur and the Bāburnāma (with Anuradha)

441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer)

440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin

439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden)

438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)

437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson

The History of Literature Presents: Missing Pages

436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)

435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything

434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story

433 Emma's Pick - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)

431 Langston Hughes

430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding)

429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard)

428 Edward Gibbon (with Zachary Karabell)

427 Bashō's Best - Haiku and the Essence of Life

426 Matsuo Bashō - Haiku's Greatest Master

425 Tom Stoppard (with Scott Carter)

424 Karel Čapek (with Ian Coss)

423 Roger Ebert

422 Wallace Stegner (with Melodie Edwards)

421 HOL Goes to the Movies (A Best-of Episode with Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome)

420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende)

419 Christina Rossetti

418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

417 What Happened on Roanoke Island? (with Kimberly Brock)

416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)

415 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti

414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs)

413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"

412 HOL Goes to War (with Elizabeth Samet, Matt Gallagher, and Tom Roston)

411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope

410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)

409 "Fear and Trembling" (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) by Soren Kierkegaard

408 Dylan Thomas (with Scott Carter)

407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell

406 A World in Turmoil - 1967-1971 (with Beverly Gologorsky)

405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love

404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)

403 The Wonderful World of Mysteries (A Best-of-HOL Episode)

Introducing "The History of Literature"

402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

401 HOL Presents: Melissa Chadburn and The Throwaways (A Storybound Project) | PLUS The First Work of Literature by an African American Author

400 Anniversary Special! (with Mike Palindrome)

399 Stephen Crane (with Linda H. Davis)

398 Fernando Pessoa

397 Plath, Hughes, and the "Other Woman" - Assia Wevill and Her Writings (with Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter Steinberg)

396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)

395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)

394 Freud and Fiction | PLUS An Assia Wevill Preview

393 Writers in Odessa, Ukraine's "Black Sea Pearl" | PLUS Margot Reads Boswell

392 Sigmund Freud

391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)

390 Victor Hugo

389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)

388 Sense and Sensibility

387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon)

386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast)

385 The Gettysburg Address

384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice

383 The Radical Woman Who Wrote 'Goodnight Moon' - The Story of Margaret Wise Brown (with the New Yorker's Anna Holmes)

382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) | The Poet Who Hated Love | Does Margot Still Love Boswell and Johnson

381 C Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)

380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond

379 Gwendolyn Brooks | Bharati Preview 2 (with Mira Sundara Rajan)

378 Liu Xinwu and the "Scar Literature" of China (with Jeremy Tiang) | Bharati Sneak Preview (with Mira Sundara Rajan)

377 The Brothers Grimm | Jeremy Tiang Sneak Preview

376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)

375 The Power of Literature | PLUS Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (with Margot Livesey)

374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)

373 Roald Dahl

372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)

371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)

370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)

369 Rilke and the Search for God

368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell)

367 The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter

366 Evelyn Waugh (with Phil Klay)

365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz

364 Bob Dylan, the Blues, and Songs with Literary Power (with Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez)

363 William Butler Yeats

362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)

361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)

360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter)

359 Forgotten Women of Literature 6 - Eliza Haywood and Fantomina | PLUS Keats's Letter on Shakespeare and "Negative Capability"

358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) | Charles Dickens's Gospel (with Scott Carter)

357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter)

356 Louisa May Alcott

355 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee)

353 Oscar Wilde in Prison (with Scott Carter)

352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian)

351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)

350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer)

349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)

348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome)

347 The Prisoner and His Prize - The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)

346 For Whom the Beast Leaps (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 3)

345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome)

344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 2)

343 The Feast in the Jungle (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 1)

342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh)

341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief"

340 Forgotten Women of Literature 5 - Constance Fenimore Woolson

339 Jack Kerouac

338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)

337 Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus (with A. Natasha Joukovsky)

336 Painting the Paintings in Literature (with Charlie Stein)

335 Machado de Assis (with Cláudia Laitano)

334 Katherine Mansfield

333 Tristram Shandy

332 Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel)

331 "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth

330 Middlemarch (with Yang Huang)

329 Miguel de Cervantes

328 Aristophanes (with Aaron Poochigian)

327 Natalia Ginzburg

HoL Presents The REAL Little Women (from the Book Dreams Podcast)

326 Rimbaud

325 Philip Larkin

HoL Presents The Graduate (from the Overdue Podcast)

324 Ralph Ellison | Blocked! (Top 10 Cases of Writer's Block)

323 Salman Rushdie

322 Djuna Barnes

321 Thucydides

320 Henry James

319 Frances (Fanny) Burney

318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)

317 My Antonia by Willa Cather

316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)

315 Gabriel García Márquez and the Incredible and Sad (and Marvelous) World

314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)

313 "Spring Snow" (from The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima

312 Yukio Mishima

311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read

309 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (a Storybound project)

308 New Westerns (with Anna North)

306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian)

305 The Remains of the Day

304 Kazuo Ishiguro (with Chigozie Obioma)

303 The Search for Darcy - Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice

302 Jane in Love - The Story of Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy

301 Reading Proust with Strangers

300 Frederick Douglass

299 The Cherry Orchard

298 Amyra León!

297 The Scarlet Letter

296 Nathaniel Hawthorne

295 The Past, The Future, and Chekhov

292 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)

291 The Book of Firsts (with Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal)

290 The Seagull (Chekhov)

289 Swann's Way

288 The Triumph of Broadway (with Michael Riedel)

287 The Heptameron | Marguerite de Navarre

286 JRR Tolkien

285 Herodotus

284 Westerns (with Anna North)

283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation

282 Science Fiction

281 The Great Gatsby

280 Romance Novels

279 Jean Rhys

278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)

277 George Orwell

276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter"

275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)

274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil

273 The Book for Book Lovers - The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book (with Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley)

272 "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)

271 "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Solo Special!)

270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat"

268 Forgotten Women of Literature 4 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

267 Great Scot! The 6 Best Scottish Writers (with Margot Livesey)

265 Forgotten Women of Literature 3 | Aemelia Lanyer

264 HoL Presents Tommy Orange's "Copperopolis" (a Storybound Project) | PLUS a Visit from Jacke Lonelyhearts

263 Forgotten Women of Literature 2 - Cai Yan (Wenji)

262 Ovid

261 Forgotten Women of Literature - Enheduanna (with Charles Halton)

260 HoL Presents Diksha Basu from the Storybound Project

259 Shakespeare's Best | Sonnets 129 and 130 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")

Hatchet Jobs! When Reviewers Attack

Shakespeare's Best | Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

TS Eliot | The Waste Land

Anna Karenina

The Brontes' Secret Scandal (with Finola Austin)

Beatrix Potter

Stendhal

The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson)

Raymond Carver (with Tom Perrotta)

Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron

Joyce Carol Oates (with Evie Lee)

Alexandre Dumas

Keeping Secrets! Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, and the CIA (with Lara Prescott)

William Faulkner | Dry September

Literary Battle Royal 2 - The Cold War (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.)

More Thoreau | Experiencing Nature (with Nina Shengold)

The Seven Deadly Sins

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern)

Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 3

Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 2

Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman

C.S. Lewis

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

James Baldwin - Going To Meet the Man

William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily

Baldwin v Faulkner

Jorge Luis Borges

"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Albert Camus

"Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler

The Best of the Bard: Top 10 Greatest Lines in Shakespeare

The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino | The African Library Project

A Lost Spring (with Professor Mitchell Nathanson)

After Rain by William Trevor

Extra by Yiyun Li

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

Kate Chopin

Kipling, Kingsley, and Conan Doyle - When Writers Go to War (with Sarah LeFanu)

Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov

Special Quarantine Edition - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter

Edith Wharton

More John Keats

Conflict Literature (with Matt Gallagher)

John Keats

Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill)

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Saul Bellow

Living Poetry (with Bob Holman)

William Blake

Chekhov

Virginia Woolf (with Gillian Gill)

The Magic Mountain

Jonathan Swift

Sylvia Plath

Margaret Atwood

Thomas Hardy

George Saunders (with Mike Palindrome)

Macbeth

Alfred Hitchcock (with Mike Palindrome)

Chinua Achebe

Blood and Sympathy in the 19th Century (with Professor Ann Kibbie)

Weeping for Gogol

Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes (with Yuval Taylor)

The Brontes

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marcel Proust

George Eliot

Samuel Beckett

182 Darkness and Light (with Jessica Harper)

181 David Foster Wallace (with Mike Palindrome)

179 The Oscars by Decade (with Brian Price)

178 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (with Evie Lee)

177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy)

176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force)

175 Virgin Whore - The Virgin Mary in Medieval Literature and Culture (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg)

174 David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!)

173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

172 Holiday Movies (with Brian Price)

171 To Sleep Perchance to Dream - On Writers and Death

170 Toni Morrison

169 Dostoevsky

168 Jhumpa Lahiri ("The Third and Final Continent")

167 F Scott Fitzgerald

166 Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter)

165 Ezra Pound

164 Karl Marx

163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird)

161 Voltaire

160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan)

159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)

158 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome)

155 Plato

154 John Milton

153 Charles Dickens

152 George Sand

151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Tetzner)

150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog"

149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World)

147 Leo Tolstoy

146 Power Ranking the Nobel Prize for Literature

145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron

144 Food in Literature (with Ronica Dhar)

143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at the U.S. Military Academy (with Professor Elizabeth Samet)

142 Comedian Joe Pera Talks with Us (with Joe Pera)

141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)

140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)

139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

138 Why Poetry (with Matthew Zapruder)

136 The Kids Are All Right (Aren't They?) - Making the Case for Literature

135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)

134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life

133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)

132 Top 10 Literary Villains

131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)

130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani

129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova)

128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome)

127 Gertrude Stein

126 Animals in Literature (Part One)

125 Raymond Carver

124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)

123 James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1)

122 Young James Joyce

121 A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man – John Ashbery’s Early Years (with Karin Roffman)

119 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

118 Oscar’s Ghost – The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy (with Laura Lee)

117 Machiavelli and The Prince

116 Ghost Stories!

115 The Genius of Alice Munro

114 Christopher Marlowe – What Happened and What If?

112 The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor – Unpacking Nabokov’s Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)

111 The Americanest American – Ralph Waldo Emerson

110 Heart of Darkness – Then and Now

109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac)

108 Beowulf (aka Need a Hero? Get a Grip…)

107 The Man and the Myth – Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (with Mattias Bostrom)

106 Literature Goes to the Movies, Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos

105 Funny Women, Crimes Against Book Clubs, George Orwell, and More (with Kathy Cooperman)

104 King Lear

102 Pablo Neruda

100 The Greatest Books with Numbers in the Title

99 History and Mystery (with Radha Vatsal)

98 Great Literary Feuds

97 Dad Poetry (with Professor Bill)

96 Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)

95 The Runaway Poets – The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

94 Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story

93 Robert Frost Finds a Friend

92 The Books of Our Lives

91 In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea

90 Mark Twain’s Final Request

89 Primo Levi

87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence

86 Don Juan in Literature (aka The Case of the Red-Hot Lover)

85 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

84 The Trials of Oscar Wilde

83 Overrated! Top 10 Books You Don’t Need to Read

82 Robinson Crusoe

81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany)

80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V

79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey)

77 Top 10 Literary Cities

76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong)

75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki

74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran)

73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel

72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature

70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books

68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts

67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election

66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan)

65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler)

64 Dorothy Parker

63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter)

62 Bad Poetry

60 Great Literary Endings

59 Flannery O’Connor

58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis)

57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too)

56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan)

55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill)

54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2)

53 Romeo and Juliet

52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers

51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery

50 Othello

49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

48 Hamlet

47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald

46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty

45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2)

44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1)

43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger)

42 Was Prince a Poet?

41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer)

40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair”

39 Graham Greene

38 Literary Duos (Part Two)

37 Literary Duos (Part One)

36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus)

35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar

33 – The Bhagavad Gita

32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club)

28 The Ramayana

27 The Upanishads (Part Two)

11 The Upanishads (Part One)

10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast

9 Confucius

8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry)

7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry

7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes

6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

5 Greek Tragedy (Part One)

4 Sappho

3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso

3 Homer

2A The Book of Job

2 The Hebrew Bible

1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh

1 The Epic of Gilgamesh

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