We’re trying something a little different this week on Overdue. To hear more, turn to page 44. To go back, turn to page 56. OK, this episode listing doesn’t...

Safecracker, prankster, bongo drummer, painter, teacher. Richard Feynman was many things in addition to being a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and he seemed to enjoy the incongruities of his varied...

This week’s story,This Is How You Lose Her, is a loosely connected collection of short stories that blurs the line between protagonist and author. Junot Díaz’s upbringing and personal...

“I’m a hairy ape, get me? And I’ll bust youse in de jaw if you don’t lay off kiddin’ me.” When Eugene O’Neill wants to get his point across,...

There’s a fair chance that you’re familiar with Piper Kerman’sOrange Is The New Blackthrough the award-winning Netflix drama. This week we wanted to go to the source material and...

Things get a little hot and heavy on this week’s episode dedicated to Philip Roth’s 1969 novelPortnoy’s Complaint. We do, however, start off with some reactions to our Pride...

This week, we take another run at Jane Austen.Pride and Prejudiceis, in Andrew’s words, “a book where a bunch of people eventually get married to each other. “It’s also...

Go Tell It on the Mountain, the first novel by revered American author and essayist James Baldwin tackles a whole host of serious issues ranging from slavery to the...

This week’s book, Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, is historical fiction that purports to tell the story of the painting of the same name. If that’s not...