Tom Holland on Thucydides and the plague at Athens
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Our latest episode features Tom Holland on a plague that changed the course of ancient history, Thucydides, and what we can learn from the Greeks.
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Our latest episode features Tom Holland on a plague that changed the course of ancient history, Thucydides, and what we can learn from the Greeks.
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We are pleased to announce the Octavian 2019 holiday book List. The list makes great year-end reading wherever you may be — and great gifts, if you are still looking.
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The Nobel Prize-winning novelist spoke with us about how the erosion of culture means the erosion of political liberty.
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What made Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss? His biographer Brian Jay Jones explains how hard work, creativity, and respect for kids changed Ted Geisel into an icon.
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America's most eminent literary critic explains Iago, Othello, and the nature of their tragedy.
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For this week's podcast, we spoke with the National Book Award finalist about his new novel, war, marriage, and everything in between.
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The Divine Comedy changed the course of culture. Bestselling author of The Dante Chamber Matthew Pearl explains why.
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Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Seas and Why Read Moby Dick? spoke to us about why the book is so important and what it can teach us.
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FROM THE MAGAZINE The events in Ukraine in the late winter and spring of 2014 provided a rare glimpse of a European revolution in real time.
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What makes us human? Jim Henson and Heinrich von Kleist both had deep insights into our condition.
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