Tag

literature

47 pages

Episodes (20)

Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on 1984, Newspeak, and Orwell's Vision of Power for Its Own Sake

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on A Game of Thrones, the Punishment of Idealism, and an Unfinishable Series

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Brave New World, Fordism, and Huxley's Ambivalent Dystopia

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Frankenstein, the Creature's Humanity, and the Modern Prometheus

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on My Brilliant Friend, Female Friendship, and the Unreliable Narrator

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Great Gatsby, the American Dream, and the Irrecoverable Past

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Moral Picture, and Wilde's Fall

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Secret History, the Reverse Murder Mystery, and Dark Academia

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Wind in the Willows, the Edwardian Idyll, and the Refusal to Grow Up

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and the Misread Romance

Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men

Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America

Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth

Philip Pullman on C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and Children's Literature

Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on Odysseus's Monsters, Greek Colonisation Anxieties, and the Slaughter of the Suitors

Concepts (1)

Totalitarianism

Speakers (7)

Benjamin Moser

Henry Oliver

Katherine Rundell

Marilynne Robinson

Paula Byrne

Rebecca F. Kuang

Russ Roberts

Hosts (2)

Dominic Sandbrook

Tabitha Syrett

People (9)

Aldous Huxley

Clarice Lispector

Elena Ferrante

Evelyn Waugh

George Orwell

Jane Austen

Susan Sontag

Thomas Hardy

Vasily Grossman

Books (8)

1984

Babel

Brave New World

Life and Fate

Measure for Measure

My Brilliant Friend

Polostan

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