Literate is a podcast that goes through The New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century” list from the mid-1990s. Each episode focuses on one book, exploring its history and author, and asking whether it really is one of the books of the twentieth century. The hosts, literary scholars Erica Lombard and Alicia Broggi, also invite two experts onto each episode—from translators to writers to academics to the founder of a book museum.