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.  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.

Stream or download this episode.  Just a few weeks into the Coronavirus crisis, the literary magazine Dappled Things began publishing a series of poems that reflected, in more or less…

Stream or download this episode.  David Grubbs, Nathan Gilmour, and Jay Eldred talk about books three and four of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961) and Robert…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about our relationship to the saints.

Stream or download this episode. Read Gina Dalfonzo’s “A Christmas Carol for the Cancel Culture” Charles Dickens was that rarity in literature—an enormously popular novelist who, after his death, is…

Stream or download this episode.  Michial Farmer, Coyle Neal, and Jordan Poss talk about books one and two of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Richmond Lattimore (1951), Robert Fagles…

Stream or download this episode. Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about their prayer habits.