What if you got to/had to live the same 25 years of your life over and over again? Would you try to recreate the life you had lost? Would...

Strap yourselves in and pick a good safe word, because Andrew and Craig both readFifty Shades of Greyfor this, our landmark 50th episode! Boy are they sorry! A warning...

What’s agranfalloon, you ask? Or akarass? Astuppa?Awampeter? These are all terms from the Bokonon religion, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle -a hilarious but depressing...

Craig and Andrew take a trip to Transylvania this week, facilitated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Join us for a talk about the evolution of the vampire, the Olympics, and...

‘Ello ‘ello! What’s all this then?! A discussion of George Bernard Shaw, turn-of-the-century dialects,My Fair Ladyand gender politics, ya say? Conversations about whether or not stories should end romantically...

We return to the Dead White Male canon this week with Ernest Hemingway’sThe Old Man and the Sea, the gripping tale of an old man who goes out fishing...

What does it mean to be a woman? We don’t know the answer to that question, and it’s doubtful we ever will. But reading Kate Chopin’s revolutionary novelThe Awakeningis...

Have you ever revisited a classic from your childhood only to find a whole pile of weird subtext you’ve never noticed before? Andrew’s never read Mary Poppins, but all...

Nothing screams New Year’s like a guy sitting in his study, missing his beloved, wishing an obnoxious, repetitive bird would just leave him the heck alone. Therefore it’s only...