The History of Literature

639 Episodes

1. 566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)

   Published: 11/16/2023
2. 565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin

   Published: 11/13/2023
3. 564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)

   Published: 11/9/2023
4. 563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)

   Published: 11/6/2023
5. 562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)

   Published: 11/2/2023
6. 561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe)

   Published: 10/30/2023
7. 560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

   Published: 10/26/2023
8. 559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner

   Published: 10/23/2023
9. 558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey)

   Published: 10/19/2023
10. 557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng)

    Published: 10/16/2023
11. 556 The Story Behind a Children's Classic - Anna Sewell and the Writing of 'Black Beauty' (with Celia Brayfield)

    Published: 10/12/2023
12. 555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis

    Published: 10/9/2023
13. 554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg

    Published: 10/5/2023
14. 553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders

    Published: 10/2/2023
15. 552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)

    Published: 9/28/2023
16. 551 Charlotte Lennox and The Female Quixote (Forgotten Women of Literature 8) | My Last Book with Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan

    Published: 9/25/2023
17. 550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula

    Published: 9/21/2023
18. 549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon)

    Published: 9/18/2023
19. 548 Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)

    Published: 9/14/2023
20. 547 Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (with William Egginton)

    Published: 9/11/2023