Tag

literature

37 pages

Episodes (12)

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 Brave New World, Fordism, and Huxley's Ambivalent Dystopia

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 (8)

Aldous Huxley

Clarice Lispector

Evelyn Waugh

George Orwell

Jane Austen

Susan Sontag

Thomas Hardy

Vasily Grossman

Books (7)

1984

Babel

Brave New World

Life and Fate

Measure for Measure

Polostan

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