Literate
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 15: Books of the Century Season Finale
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a "book of the century"? And who gets to decide which books make the cut? Over the past two seasons of Literate, we have been asking these ...
Episode 14: The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we wander through The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Written in the aftermath of the Great War, this long poem uses a diverse array of voices to...
Episode 13: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We step into a world of uncertainty, this week, with The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. In this ghost story, a young woman takes up a new job as a ...
Episode 12: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Traverse Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys with us! This imaginative prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre gives a history - a life - to the madwoman ...
Episode 11: The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Buchi Emecheta's novel The Bride Price takes us back to Nigeria! It tells the tragic story of Aku-nna, a city girl, whose childhood in Lagos is cut sh...
Episode 10: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is the most widely read African novel, and we're exploring some of the reasons why. We follow its main character, Ok...
Episode 9: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook is next on our list! This novel explores the life of Anna Wulf. Like Lessing, Anna is a writer, but the similariti...
Episode 8: Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode takes us through the lamentation of Anna Akhmatova's Rekviem / Requiem. In this poem, or cycle of poems, Akhmatova speaks out against the...
Episode 7: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We start Season 2 with a boom – the Latin American Boom, that is – by reading Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years...
Episode 6: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let your imagination set sail in this discussion of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse in the final episode of our first season. It's a story about lo...
Episode 5: The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us in experiencing W. B. Yeats's striking images and evocative sounds in The Wild Swans at Coole. We compare the 1917 and 1919 editions of this c...
Episode 4: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're putting Franz Kafka's slim novella, The Metamorphosis, under the microscope. It's a famous story about one character, Gregor Samsa, tr...
Episode 3: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Follow your wanderlust through Jack Kerouac's On the Road. This iconic novel of the Beat Generation takes us to 1950s America. It's a dizzying trip fi...
Episode 2: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we venture into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges's collection of short stories, Ficciones. We explore his use of the short story, a...
Episode 1: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, literary scholars Alicia Broggi and Erica Lombard discuss Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. The episode also features an extended refl...
Coming soon! Literate podcast
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the trailer for Literate, a new podcast about the "best" books. Each episode, literary scholars Alicia Broggi and Erica Lombard discuss one...