The History of Literature

690 Episodes

1. 616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai

   Published: 6/24/2024
2. 615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed

   Published: 6/17/2024
3. 614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke

   Published: 6/13/2024
4. 613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel

   Published: 6/10/2024
5. 612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus

   Published: 6/3/2024
6. 611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter

   Published: 5/30/2024
7. 610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus

   Published: 5/27/2024
8. 609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi

   Published: 5/20/2024
9. 608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell

   Published: 5/16/2024
10. 607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin

    Published: 5/13/2024
11. 606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)

    Published: 5/6/2024
12. 605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)

    Published: 5/2/2024
13. 604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol

    Published: 4/29/2024
14. 603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)

    Published: 4/22/2024
15. 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
16. 601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)

    Published: 4/15/2024
17. 600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)

    Published: 4/8/2024
18. 599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown

    Published: 4/4/2024
19. 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
20. 597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames

    Published: 3/25/2024