Literate podcast

What makes a “book of the century”? And who gets to decide which books make the cut? Over the past two seasons […]

This week we wander through The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Written in the aftermath of the Great War, this long […]

We step into a world of uncertainty, this week, with The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. In this ghost story, […]

Traverse Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys with us! This imaginative prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre gives a history – a […]

Buchi Emecheta’s novel The Bride Price takes us back to Nigeria! It tells the tragic story of Aku-nna, a city girl, whose […]

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is the most widely read African novel, and we’re exploring some of the reasons why. We follow […]

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is next on our list! This novel explores the life of Anna Wulf. Like Lessing, Anna is […]

This episode takes us through the lamentation of Anna Akhmatova’s Rekviem / Requiem. In this poem, or cycle of poems, Akhmatova speaks […]

We start Season 2 with a boom – the Latin American Boom, that is – by reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años […]

We’re hard at work on Season 2 of Literate, and are very excited to share the line-up of episodes and books that […]