Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
September 21, 2025
Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian novelist, famous for The Man Without Qualities. Set in…
Fiction Tagged Episodes
The 2025 Dionysus Awards
July 20, 2025
What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things…
In Search of Proust’s Philosophy
March 30, 2025
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time challenges us to think hard about what we…
(Late) Summer Reading List 2024
September 1, 2024
Looking for some deep dives into pop culture this summer? Josh and Ray talk to…
Summer Reading List 2024
September 1, 2024
Looking for some deep dives into pop culture this summer? Josh and Ray talk to…
The 2024 Dionysus Awards
August 11, 2024
What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things…
Comforting Conversations, pt.1
January 3, 2021
In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with…
Summer Reading (and Misreading)
September 1, 2019
What should you be reading this summer—and how should you be reading it? We’re often…
The New Golden Age of Television
September 30, 2018
They called it a “vast wasteland” in the 1960s, but TV is very different today.…
Summer Reading List 2018
August 19, 2018
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read…
Summer Reading List 2017
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
Truth and Other Fictions
December 27, 2015
Most of us think we know the truth when we see it. But what exactly…
Summer Reading List 2015
June 21, 2015
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up…
How Fiction Shapes Us
May 24, 2015
A good novel can do many things. It can distract us from the humdrum of…
The Evolution of Storytelling
February 8, 2014
Humans are unique as the only creatures on this planet who tell stories. Whether it…
Summer Reading List 2013
July 28, 2013
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Heidegger’s Being and Time…
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