Brief Book Review Episode Eleven - Les Misérables (Pt. II)
Today is the second part of our series on Les Misérables. I discuss the symbolism of Cosette and Hugo's suspending of the reader's disbelief, among ot...
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This podcast looks at a different book each episode through the lens of just three questions: Why is this book good? Why is this book bad? Why should I care about this book?
Brief Book Review Episode Ten - The Nonexistent Knight
Today's book is The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino. It's a great novella that plays with some interesting ideas, and I noticed some parallels bet...
Brief Book Review Episode Nine - Les Misérables (Pt. I)
Today's book is the longest yet on the Brief Book Review - Les Misérables. As such, I've chosen to divide this episode into five parts. This episode f...
Brief Book Review Episode Eight - Nausea
Today's book is Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. It's Sartre's first existentialist work and pioneers the basic tenets of the philosophy, but is one of the...
Brief Book Review Episode Seven - MAUS
This week's book is MAUS by Art Spiegelman. It's a bit of a break from tradition to include a comic in a book review podcast, but this book is one of ...
Brief Book Review Episode Six - Dream Story
Today's book is Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler. It's a great book and criminally unknown. The book is my pick as representative of the fin de siècle...
Brief Book Review Episode Five - Civilwarland in Bad Decline
This week's book is Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders. It is one of the most darkly funny books you'll ever read, and puts into words a s...
Brief Book Review Episode Four - Stranger in a Strange Land
This week, I reviewed Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, a book whose role in science fiction I respect but about whose ideas I have mixed...
Brief Book Review Episode Three - The Unconsoled
Today's book on Brief Book Review is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel laureate and one of my personal favorite authors. This book is very polar...
Brief Book Review Episode Two - Midnight's Children
For today's episode of the Brief Book Review, I share my thoughts on Midnight's Children, one of Salman Rushdie's best works. Please, let me know your...