The History of Literature

694 Episodes

1. 384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice

   Published: 2/21/2022
2. 383 The Radical Woman Who Wrote 'Goodnight Moon' - The Story of Margaret Wise Brown (with the New Yorker's Anna Holmes)

   Published: 2/17/2022
3. 382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) | The Poet Who Hated Love | Does Margot Still Love Boswell and Johnson

   Published: 2/14/2022
4. 381 C Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)

   Published: 2/10/2022
5. 380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond

   Published: 2/7/2022
6. 379 Gwendolyn Brooks | Bharati Preview 2 (with Mira Sundara Rajan)

   Published: 2/3/2022
7. 378 Liu Xinwu and the "Scar Literature" of China (with Jeremy Tiang) | Bharati Sneak Preview (with Mira Sundara Rajan)

   Published: 1/31/2022
8. 377 The Brothers Grimm | Jeremy Tiang Sneak Preview

   Published: 1/27/2022
9. 376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)

   Published: 1/24/2022
10. 375 The Power of Literature | PLUS Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (with Margot Livesey)

    Published: 1/20/2022
11. 374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)

    Published: 1/17/2022
12. 373 Roald Dahl

    Published: 1/13/2022
13. 372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)

    Published: 1/6/2022
14. 371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)

    Published: 1/3/2022
15. 370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)

    Published: 12/30/2021
16. 369 Rilke and the Search for God

    Published: 12/23/2021
17. 368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell)

    Published: 12/20/2021
18. 367 The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter

    Published: 12/16/2021
19. 366 Evelyn Waugh (with Phil Klay)

    Published: 12/13/2021
20. 365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz

    Published: 12/9/2021