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
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Encyclopédie
25 min
77
The General Theory
25 min
78
Civilization and Its Discontents
21 min
79
Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
27 min
80
The Iliad
25 min
81
Bushido
30 min
82
Manifesto of Futurism
27 min
83
Reflections on the Revolution in France
29 min
84
The Written World
25 min
85
Moby Dick
25 min
86
Frankenstein
33 min
87
War and Peace
32 min
88
The Realm of the Nebulae
38 min
89
Fear and Trembling
30 min
90
Bantu Prophets in South Africa
21 min
91
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
37 min
92
The Souls of Black Folk
31 min
93
Frederick Douglass
27 min
94
The Tevye Stories
24 min
95
The Great Learning
13 min
96
BONUS: Behind the Musical
Sholem Aleichem aimed to create a high Yiddish literature, but he wound up doing much more. Harvard professor Saul Noam Zaritt.discusses the stories behind the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof.
2 min
97
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Dartmouth professor and pooet Joshua Bennett discusses what Their Eyes Were Watching God can teach us about cancel culture.
35 min
98
Public Opinion
University of British Columbia professor Heidi Tworek unpacks Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion and the role of the press in a democracy.
30 min
99
The Story of the Stone
26 min
100
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman offered a new vision of American poetry and American identity—one that was diverse urban, and embodied.
37 min