30 Episodes

  1. 2.3 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Formulaic Surprises

    Published: 11/23/2021

  2. 2.2 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Magnet Mountain

    Published: 11/16/2021

  3. 2.1 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Introduction

    Published: 11/9/2021

  4. The Worlds of Scheherazade Trailer

    Published: 10/25/2021

  5. 1.5 Finnegan and Friends: Musical Conclusions

    Published: 4/29/2021

  6. 1.4 Finnegan and Friends: Familiar Language

    Published: 4/22/2021

  7. 1.3 Finnegan and Friends: Water

    Published: 4/15/2021

  8. 1.2 Finnegan and Friends: Dreams

    Published: 4/8/2021

  9. 1.1 Finnegan and Friends: Introduction

    Published: 4/1/2021

  10. Finnegan and Friends Trailer

    Published: 3/24/2021

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The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West. For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that's filled many massive books: the American short story.