Stream or download this episode.  Jay Eldred, Jordan Poss, and Michial Farmer discuss books fifteen and sixteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Robert Fagles…

Stream or download this episode. Alexis Neal and Laurie Norris discuss holiday food traditions. INTRODUCTIONS KNOWING Foodways defined Personal experiences with foodways Foodways in literature, film, or television READING “Reclaiming…

Stream or download this episode. Today’s episode of the City of Man is a special crossover episode with Danny Anderson and the Sectarian Review! Danny and Coyle are joined by…

Stream or download this episode.  David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about books twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Samuel Butler (1898), Robert…

Stream or download this episode. We couldn’t work out our schedules to record this year’s Christmas episode, so enjoy this one from a few years back, on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s…

Stream or download this episode.  Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Christina Bieber Lake, and Jay Eldred discuss Books ten and eleven of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961)…

Stream or download this episode. Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about three Christina Rossetti poems about Advent: “Advent (1851),” “Advent Sunday,” “Sunday Before Advent.”

Stream or download this episode. Laurie Norris, Blake Miller, and Ilia Danner Grubbs take on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Knowing Background on Marvel’s Squirrel Girl character, Doreen Green Discussion of…

Stream or download this episode.  Jordan Poss and David Grubbs talk about books 8 and 9 of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translation of Homer: Robert Fagles (1996). This is the Terminator…

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about four paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper: Night Windows, City Roofs, New York…

Stream or download this episode.  In a presidential debate before the 2012 election, Barack Obama called attention to a remark that his opponent, Mitt Romney, had made a few months…

Stream or download this episode. Visit our website. Josh and Michial discuss the 36th full-length animated feature in the Disney canon, 1998’s Mulan, with special guest Judy Guo.

Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about books five, six, and seven of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Samuel Butler (1898) and Emily Wilson (2017).…

Stream or download this episode. In this classic episode from 2015, David Grubbs, Nathan Gilmour, and Danny Anderson discuss the many cultural manifestations of offices.