The History of Literature

639 Episodes

1. 605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)

   Published: 5/2/2024
2. 604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol

   Published: 4/29/2024
3. 603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)

   Published: 4/22/2024
4. 602 Thomas Hardy's "Spellbound Palace," The Birthplace of the King James Bible, and a Royal Setting for Shakespeare and His Plays (with Gareth Russell) | My Last Book with Jess Cotton

   Published: 4/18/2024
5. 601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)

   Published: 4/15/2024
6. 600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)

   Published: 4/8/2024
7. 599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown

   Published: 4/4/2024
8. 598 Forgotten Women of Literature 8 - Charmian Kittredge London (with Iris Jamahl Dunkle) | What's Great About Christopher Isherwood (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Duncan Yoon

   Published: 4/1/2024
9. 597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames

   Published: 3/25/2024
10. 596 The Power of Stories (with J Edward Chamberlin) | Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson | Flannery O'Connor (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Shin Yu Pai

    Published: 3/18/2024
11. 595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden

    Published: 3/11/2024
12. 594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Published: 3/4/2024
13. 593 Vladimir Propp (with Mike Palindrome) | The Russian Gothic (with Valeria Sobol) | My Last Book with Vanessa Riley

    Published: 2/26/2024
14. 592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom Holland

    Published: 2/19/2024
15. 591 William Wordsworth

    Published: 2/12/2024
16. 590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter

    Published: 2/8/2024
17. 589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with Dr Tara Bynum

    Published: 2/5/2024
18. 588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Katherine Howe

    Published: 2/1/2024
19. 587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan van Belle

    Published: 1/29/2024
20. 586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jesse Kavadlo

    Published: 1/25/2024