436 Episodes

  1. The World's First Author

    Published: 2/14/2024
  2. Protest, what is it good for?

    Published: 2/7/2024
  3. Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'

    Published: 1/31/2024
  4. War in Tigray

    Published: 1/24/2024
  5. Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

    Published: 1/17/2024
  6. Proust in English

    Published: 1/10/2024
  7. New TV/Old TV

    Published: 1/3/2024
  8. Was Jane Austen Gay? And other questions from the LRB archive

    Published: 12/27/2023
  9. Byron before Byron

    Published: 12/20/2023
  10. Manutius, the Biblophile's Bibliophile

    Published: 12/13/2023
  11. Camus in the Americas

    Published: 12/6/2023
  12. Patricia Lockwood on Meeting the Pope

    Published: 11/29/2023
  13. What was Orwell for?

    Published: 11/22/2023
  14. Next Year on Close Readings: Among the Ancients II

    Published: 11/18/2023
  15. Next Year on Close Readings: Human Conditions

    Published: 11/17/2023
  16. Next Year on Close Readings: On Satire

    Published: 11/16/2023
  17. The Infected Blood Scandal

    Published: 11/15/2023
  18. The Giant Crypto Fraud

    Published: 11/8/2023
  19. What is British humour anyway?

    Published: 11/1/2023
  20. Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean (sponsored)

    Published: 10/31/2023

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