Writ Large

There’s more to a book than what’s written on its pages: a book can change the world. In each episode of Writ Large, host Zachary Davis talks with one of the world’s leading scholars about one book that shaped the world we live in—whether you’ve heard of it or not. These conversations go beyond the plot summaries to unpack each book’s context and creation, and reveal its lasting influence on the ideas of today. Learn more at writlarge.fm

Books
Society & Culture
History
51
Leviathan
30 min
52
The Prince
28 min
53
Origins of Totalitarianism
30 min
54
A Doll's House
28 min
55
Hiroshima
30 min
56
The Tale of Genji
26 min
57
Faust
33 min
58
Indications of Inimitability
25 min
59
Common Sense
29 min
60
A Treatise of Human Nature
25 min
61
Einstein's Discoveries
30 min
62
On the Origin of Species
32 min
63
The Communist Manifesto
30 min
64
The Great Gatsby
31 min
65
Robinson Crusoe
33 min
66
Les Miserables
28 min
67
Confessions
34 min
68
Fictions
29 min
69
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
34 min
70
The Decameron
28 min
71
The Republic
39 min
72
The Apology
32 min
73
Critique of Pure Reason
25 min
74
The Book of Mormon
39 min
75
Man's Search for Meaning
26 min