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Back to Search768 Young James Baldwin (with Nicholas Boggs) | My Last Book with Bruce Robbins
The American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) spent the second half of his life as a fixture in American intellectual life.…
4 months, 1 week ago
767 A Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (with Mathelinda Nabugodi) | My Last Book with Richard Kopley
Episode 767
A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar that Wordsworth stirred into his teacup. A bracelet made of Mary Shelley's hair... In this episode, Jac…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
766 Gertrude Stein (with Francesca Wade) | Ruskin on the Only One Way to Get Art | My Last Book with Holly Baggett
Episode 766
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) has long been one of the most famous - and most polarizing - figures in modernism. Was she a trailblazing genius? Or a lit…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
765 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 765
In Puritan New England, a young man leaves Faith, his wife, to go into the forest to meet the Devil. It's a story "as deep as Dante," said Herman Mel…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
764 Two Thousand Years of Roman History (with Edward J. Watts) | My Last Book with Nathan Hensley
Episode 764
What do we talk about when we talk about ancient Romans? For many of us, it's typically a fairly narrow slice of history: the toga-clad figures of Ci…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
763 Emily's Desk Drawer
Episode 763
After the publication of her debut novel Wuthering Heights in December of 1847, Emily Brontë - still writing under her pen name Ellis Bell - joined C…
5 months ago
762 The History of the Sonnet
Episode 762
“A sonnet,” said the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “is a moment’s monument.” But who invented the sonnet? Who brought it to prominence? How has it ch…
5 months ago
761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time)
Episode 761
Stephen Mitchell has translated or adapted some of the world's most beautiful and spiritually rich texts, including The Gospel According to Jesus, Th…
5 months, 1 week ago
760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge
Episode 760
In this holiday-themed episode, a sentimental Jacke takes a look at Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), and the creation of Ebeneezer Scrooge.…
5 months, 1 week ago
759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham
Episode 759
Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Godfather routinely tops lists of the greatest films ever made - and when it doesn't, it's often because its s…
5 months, 2 weeks ago