Sophocles's play Antigone.

Dorothy L. Sayers’s novel Gaudy Night and Jen Silverman’s play Witch.

Michael Crummey’s novel The Adversary and rereading Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick alongside Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.

Joan Didion’s essay The Year of Magical Thinking and David Demchuk’s novel Red X.

Joan Didion’s essay The Year of Magical Thinking and David Demchuk’s novel Red X.

W.G. Sebald’s essay collection On the Natural History of Destruction and Samuel R. Delany’s novel Dhalgren.

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Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and modern Iran.

Linda Rosenkrantz’s Peter Hujar’s Day and Colm Tóibín’s On Elizabeth Bishop.

We look at some old travel literature, with The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Around My Room.

Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-cent...

The Gospel According to Mark (and some recent queer retellings of Jesus’ life story), and John Milton’s poem On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.

Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.

Suzanne talks with John Nicholas, whose parents Grey Owl and Little Pigeon wrote Cry of the Ancients (1974).

Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 11/17/2025 · 26m

For Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, we’re rereading Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey.

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights and Laurie Colwin’s essay collection Home Cooking.

The poetry of Wallace Stevens and James Joyce’s experimental novel Finnegans Wake.

W.G. Sebald's curious book The Rings of Saturn.

Fancy little podcasts (and friendly little livestreams). Crosswords, Jackbox and trivia, video games, kitchen parties, etc. More at megaphonic.fm

Beatrix Potter’s charming children’s book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Edmund White’s novel Forgetting Elena.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on its 100th birthday, and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction classic Solaris.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on its 100th birthday, and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction classic Solaris.