The Common Reader

27 Episodes

1. Victoria Moul. Poetry for life.

   Published: 6/22/2025
2. Lamorna Ash. Don't Forget We're Here Forever

   Published: 6/12/2025
3. Helen Castor: imagining life in the fourteenth century.

   Published: 5/18/2025
4. Clare Carlisle: George Eliot's Double Life.

   Published: 4/27/2025
5. Matt Yglesias: reading books makes me feel calmer.

   Published: 4/13/2025
6. Katherine Dee. Finding life where others don't.

   Published: 3/23/2025
7. Agnes Callard: what is the value of fiction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 7/28/2024