The Common Reader

21 Episodes

1. Agnes Callard: what is the value of fiction?

   Published: 3/9/2025
2. The twenty best English poets

   Published: 2/23/2025
3. Natasha Joukovsky: literature, capitalism, and Jane Austen.

   Published: 2/2/2025
4. Is Atlas Shrugged the new vibe?

   Published: 1/18/2025
5. Tyler Cowen: Trump's DOGE team should read Shakespeare.

   Published: 1/1/2025
6. Brandon Taylor: I want to bring back all of what a novel can do.

   Published: 12/21/2024
7. Zena Hitz: reading the Great Books

   Published: 12/1/2024
8. Marion Turner: Chaucer's world

   Published: 11/17/2024
9. Naomi Kanakia: How Great are the Great Books?

   Published: 10/27/2024
10. Catherine Lacey: internet geography

    Published: 10/13/2024
11. Nabeel Qureshi: literature requires the fuller engagement of your soul.

    Published: 9/17/2024
12. Hollis Robbins: literature makes you a mind reader

    Published: 8/27/2024
13. James Marriott. The value of being pretentious and the importance of the emotions to the intellect.

    Published: 8/8/2024
14. A.N. Wilson. Walking in mysteries.

    Published: 7/28/2024
15. Tyler Cowen: reading John Stuart Mill

    Published: 12/11/2023
16. Noah Smith interview

    Published: 9/5/2022
17. Anna Gát, startup founder and late bloomer

    Published: 8/8/2022
18. Robin Hanson, interview

    Published: 7/4/2022
19. Sarah Harkness, late bloomer

    Published: 6/6/2022
20. Helen Lewis interview

    Published: 4/18/2022