In this special episode of The Book of Nature, Charles Hackney hosts a discussion with Jay Eldred and Jordan Poss on the Stephen King novel, The Shining, as part of…

Episode 111: Gender Equality in Parenting and Domestic Labor Stream or download this episode. Ilia Danner Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Norman Grubbs discuss Darcy Lockman’s book All the…

Ilia Danner Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Norman Grubbs discuss the intersectionality of Kate Chopin’s works through two of her short stories.   INTRODUCTIONS   KNOWING: Working definition and…

Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and special guest and author J.B. Cheaney discuss strong female characters in middle grade and young adult fiction. INTRODUCTIONS SEG 1: KNOWING: Our experiences reading…

Download or Stream this Episode When one wanders for forty, what comes next?  For Chris Maxwell, the answer is that he shares his reflections and confessions, his observations and his…

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Christmas Bells” and its musical adaptation, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”

The fourth season of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast wrapped up with Sam Mulberry and me talking about our favorite memorials, museums, meals, and masterpieces in the southern German city of Munich. In…

Sam and I are back from our Thanksgiving break to talk through the next stop on our “World Wars in Western Europe” tour: Paris, France After trying to decide whether or…

Download or Stream this Episode In the middle of my journey through 2018, I found myself in a dark wood, and a bit more literally I found myself ready to…

In his introduction to Beowulf, the scholar Friedrich Klaeber explains the great Geatish warrior’s resemblances to Christ by concluding that “the narrative derived a superior dignity from suggesting the most…

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “The Remains of the Day.”

David Grubbs takes Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour on a sea voyage through Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses.”

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Download or Stream this Episode Immanuel Kant famously distinguished between things, existing as they are, impervious to our mental probings, and objects, those pieces of our world that only come…

from 109 (3 November Y.D.A.U.) to the section break on 211 I come to Infinite Jest having read Wallace’s “This is Water” speech, assorted essays from his two essay collections,…