Nudie Reads

Long before The Weave of US President Donald Trump there was  Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, a wild 18th-century classic from England via Ireland more known for its detours than the autobiography ...

6 Apr 202524min

The Fram2 spacecraft orbits Earth's polar regions for the first time ever. And The Fram, the OG ship of the 19th century was also a trailblzer. Nansen's diaries of her first Artic voyage are a gem of ...

3 Apr 202510min

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan contains his killer line about life being ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. He was grim fella but his work is a 17th century English classic of political thought. Lived to the ri...

30 Mar 202525min

On March 16, 2025 Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar robot signed off with a hauntingly beautiful message straightfrom Mare Crisium, sketched by Galileo and named by Riccioli in the 17th century. Great, ...

27 Mar 202511min

His name is a byword for being a pants man. But Casanova was also a classic Enlightenment era writer. He was a true libertine and his jailbreak story, from Venice's notoriously unbreakable Piombi pris...

23 Mar 202517min

Nudie Reads the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 13:1 on love, or charity. From Bergman’s films to metal riffs, “through a glass, darkly” haunts us still. Sending peaceful ...

6 Mar 202511min

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais is a Giant story - literally. Filled with wit and bawdy humour it is a five-book satirical masterpiece, first published in the 16th century. Perfect readi...

2 Mar 202536min

Experience the chilling legend of Sawney Bean, the Scot's cannibal and his demented clan, from a 1836 book that's as mysterious as its subjects.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📖✨

27 Feb 202515min