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Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
Season 3 Episode 2
For our second book on China, the W5H team convenes to discuss Leslie T. Chang's book on the migrant worker phenomenon in China, circa early 2000s, w…
2 years, 2 months ago
China Witness by Xinran
Season 3 Episode 1
What's the deal with China? Luki and Dave reconvene for a new season of W5H as they attempt to understand China and its place in the modern world.
Ch…
2 years, 3 months ago
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Season 2 Episode 6
W5H wraps up their season on classic literature by reading a classic, and now mostly banned, novel about justice in the 1930s American deep south.
2 years, 7 months ago
The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy
Season 2 Episode 9
In the season's penultimate episode, W5H breaks down one of Leo Tolstoy's shorter works, The Death of Ivan Illych and ponders the meaning of death, a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Season 2 Episode 8
W5H reads their first novel by a woman, the original rom-com novel. Is it possible for two 21st century Asian guys to appreciate Jane Austen? Well, a…
2 years, 8 months ago
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Season 2 Episode 7
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel is considered by many to be the defining work of Latin American literature. Beautiful, magical, and just plain …
2 years, 8 months ago
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Season 2 Episode 6
W5H takes a look at the British colonial experience in India through the lens of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. The novel looks at pre-partition …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Season 2 Episode 5
The W5H team dives back into the 21st century as they discuss Ernest Hemingway's post WW1 classic, the Sun Also Rises.
2 years, 9 months ago
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Luki and Dave convene to discuss the classic, original anti-establishment, minimalist, naturalist, environmentalist manifesto. Henry David Thoreau sp…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Iliad by Homer
W5H reviews one of the landmark works of western literature, the original gangster of all epic action movies, the Iliad by Homer. Was it a dud, or is…
2 years, 9 months ago