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Episodes


Hazel V. Carby: Remembering the Future

'If God is a snail': Angela Carter on food in the London Review of Books

Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt

On Satire: The Earl of Rochester

Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats

Among the Ancients II: Herodotus

Medieval LOLs: Old English Riddles

Human Conditions: 'Black Skin, White Masks' by Frantz Fanon

On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'

Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza

Political Poems: W.H. Auden's 'Spain 1937'

Among the Ancients II: Aesop

Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata

Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir

On Satire: John Donne's Satires

Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'

Among the Ancients II: Hesiod

Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Human Conditions: 'Anti-Semite and Jew' by Jean-Paul Sartre
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