Nov 22, 2024 · Podcast

Office Hours - Is Tolstoy still relevant?

Major themes: Raskolnikov the rap god, The future of art, Tricking PBS

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Nov 15, 2024 · Podcast

The UnSimple by Taras Prokhasko

Major themes: We can never escape Benedict Anderson, Bai-narrative, Quasi-history

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Nov 8, 2024 · Podcast

To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova

Major themes: Aul literature, Looking for satisfaction, Having two faces

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Nov 5, 2024 · Podcast

Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?

Major themes: A.I. bait, straight men and novels, TikTok killed the author-star

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Oct 11, 2024 · Podcast

Strike! (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein

Major themes: Cow slaughter, Influencing the audience, Everything is montage

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Oct 6, 2024 · Podcast

The Tears & Smiles of Things by Sodomora (w/ translators Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi)

Major themes: Reading antiquity, Tears and smiles, Translating translators

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Sep 13, 2024 · Podcast paid

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

Major themes: Torturing matter, Doomed eroticism, Unfinished modernity

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Sep 6, 2024 · Podcast paid

Devil's Yard by Ivo Andrić

Major themes: Narrative confusion, Residue of truth, The eyes have it

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Jul 19, 2024 · Podcast

Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 49-61) by Grossman

Major themes: Bureaucracy, Stalingrad, the meaning of Life and Fate

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Jul 13, 2024 · Life and Fate Read Along members

Life and Fate Read Along, Part 3 Chapter 61

Some thoughts on Part 3, Chapter 61 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.

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Jul 12, 2024 · Life and Fate Read Along members

Life and Fate Read Along, Part 3 Chapter 60

Some thoughts on Part 3, Chapter 60 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.

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Jul 11, 2024 · Life and Fate Read Along members

Life and Fate Read Along, Part 3 Chapter 59

Some thoughts on Part 3, Chapter 59 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.

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