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What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin
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- 1 The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue
- 2 Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie
- 3 The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie
- 4 Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue
- 5 Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote
- 6 Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"? - Mark Robinson
- 7 Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
- 8 The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue
- 9 Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
- 10 How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic
- 11 The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins
- 12 Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker
- 13 Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie
- 14 Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash
- 15 How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler
- 16 What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin
- 17 The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss
- 18 The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy
- 19 The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson
- 20 How science fiction can help predict the future - Roey Tzezana
- 21 The science behind the myth: Homer's "Odyssey" - Matt Kaplan
- 22 What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin
- 23 A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore
- 24 Why tragedies are alluring - David E. Rivas
- 25 What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
- 26 Mining literature for deeper meanings - Amy E. Harter
- 27 A host of heroes - April Gudenrath
- 28 What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
- 29 An anti-hero of one's own - Tim Adams
- 30 The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield
- 31 How fiction can change reality - Jessica Wise
- 32 Insults by Shakespeare
- 33 On reading the Koran - Lesley Hazleton
- 34 The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie
- 35 Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo
- 36 Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples
- 37 Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie
- 38 Why should you read "Don Quixote"? - Ilan Stavans
- 39 Why should you read "Waiting For Godot"? - Iseult Gillespie
- 40 Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie
- 41 Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey
- 42 What “Machiavellian” really means - Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler
- 43 Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García
- 44 Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”? - Alex Gendler
- 45 Why should you read "Hamlet"? - Iseult Gillespie
- 46 Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges - Ilan Stavans
- 47 Romance and revolution: The poetry of Pablo Neruda - Ilan Stavans
- 48 Why should you read “Kafka on the Shore”? - Iseult Gillespie
- 49 Why should you read “Midnight’s Children”? - Iseult Gillespie
- 50 Why should you read “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy? - Laura Wright
- 51 Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? - Sheila Marie Orfano
- 52 Why should you read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? - Jill Dash
- 53 Why should you read “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano
- 54 Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler
- 55 Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”? - Yen Pham
- 56 The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death - Soraya Field Fiorio
