CodEX Machina
Episodes
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 - A Day in Life
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of CodEx Machina, Bethany and Laura lead you through a day in the life of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025. Listen to our highlights (whic...
Reading in New Spain, Inquisition, and Literacy (feat. Andrea Reyes Elizondo)
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Andrea Reyes Elizondo, a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden, about her research in the history of reading, which fo...
The Dream Hotel - Strange Land Book Club 7
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel — a sharp, thought-provoking novel that blends imagination with unsettling realism.Jo...
Banned Books research (feat. Dr Jennifer Gouck)
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dr. Jennifer Gouck joins us to unpack one of the most pressing issues in American literary culture today — book bans. What exactly are bo...
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - Strange Land Book Club 6
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's talk about banned books!On this episode we discuss a novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume. It is a story of a...
The Quine Report (feat. Dr Christina Neuwirth)
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Natalia, Bethany and Laura continue their discussion with Christina Neuwirth. We ask questions about their research of gender inequal...
Amphibian (feat. the author Christina Neuwirth) - Strange Land Book Club 5
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you come to work one day and find your office flooded. Author Christina Neuwirth joins us in this discussion to disclose some secrets of their...
Community of Memories with Literary Journal TXT
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chief editors of TXT Celine Kock and Lena Ryzhova joined us today to discuss their upcoming publication. On this episode we discussed what it's li...
The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang - Strange Land Book Club 4.
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How high are you ready to climb to knock on heaven's door?On this episode Laura, Natalia and Bethany discuss Ted Chiang's short story The Towe...
Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the 2025 Thessaloniki Book Fair. Highlights include: a panel discussing the challenges...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - Strange Land Book Club 3
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Merlin to mansions…the CodEX Machina crew discusses Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (quite exuberantly) on the latest installment of Strange Land ...
Serialization and Wattpad (feat. Swara Shukla)
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is serialization a thing of the past? Did authors and publishers indulge in publishing serialized novels only in Victorian times? How does digital wor...
Strange Land Book Club 2 with Swara Shukla
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to our first guest Swara Shukla about books she is reading. In the next episode Swars will share her research nto Wattpad and ...
Unfinished book series - Are you still waiting?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you feel when your favourite book series stops coming out? The story isn't finished and you might have to wait for years. Even this wait mi...
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Strange Land Book Club 1
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features our rubric Making Book History (some AI shenanigans from Inkitt) and of course a discussion of Piranesi - a novel that touched u...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2024
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this podcasting journey with one of the biggest bookish events of the year - Frankfurt Book Fair! In this episode in our rubric Making Book H...
Trailer
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Codex Machina, where we talk about book history, book publishing, and reading experiences!Intro music by Leonardo GranadosFollow us on I...