A Podcast of One's Own x SLOB: Special Collaboration
For this extra special A Podcast of One’s Own × The Secret Life of Books crossover, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Sophie Gee sit down to celebrate their shared love of books and r...
29 Jul 54min
James Joyce 1: Dubliners
Next in our overview of Odysseys, we embark on an epic journey of our own toward the endless tome masterpiece James Joyce’s Ulysses. No reader comes to Joyce without preconceptions. Was he the greates...
28 Jul 1h 20min
The Odyssey 4: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey review
We've been limbering up for 3 weeks now, readying ourselves to take on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the cinematic event of the year (if you don't count Wuthering Heights or the Devil Wears Prada 2). I...
21 Jul 58min
The Odyssey 3: Tennyson's Ulysses
Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” might just be the greatest Odyssey re-write of all time, even though it starts several years after Homer’s mighty epic ends. “Ulysses” is a dramatic monologue in blank verse ...
14 Jul 1h 21min
The Odyssey 2: How the Odyssey conquered the world
We’re in another SLoB code red. Only months after Wuthering Heights smashed onto our screens, Christopher Nolan is here for the blockbuster event of the season, taking the one of the oldest and still ...
7 Jul 1h 7min
The Odyssey 1: Mary Beard on Homer’s masterpiece
To kick-start our series on the Odyssey, we're republishing a hit episode from early SLOB: a conversation with Dame Mary Beard, the world's favorite classicist.The Odyssey - where stories began. Proba...
6 Jul 57min
The Declaration of Independence at 250
It’s been called most influential document ever signed. And it’s been called tokenistic and compromising, a piece of writing written by a committee. The great political economist Jeremy Bentham called...
30 Jun 1h 16min
TS Eliot 2: The Waste Land
After the triumph of Prufrock and other Observations, TS Eliot almost steered the car into the ditch, poetically and personally. Under the influence of his friend, the fascist poet Ezra Pound - a man ...
23 Jun 1h 20min
