Season 1
Episode 1: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Dr. Dana Williams, Howard University
Dr. Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford
Episode 2: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Dr. Alberto Manguel, Novelist, translator, and former Director of the National Library of Argentina
Cristóbal Pérez Barra, Novelist, translator, and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford
Episode 3: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Jerry Cimino, Founder and Director of the Beat Museum
Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania
Episode 4: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Dr. Mark Harman, Translator and Professor Emeritus at Elizabethtown College
Dr. Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford
Episode 5: The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
Professor Bernard O’Donoghue, Poet and Emeritus Fellow at the University of Oxford
Dr. Lauren Arrington, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Episode 6: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Dr. Urmila Seshagiri, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Biographer and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford
Season 2
Episode 7: Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Professor Ilan Stavans, Amherst College
Professor Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield
Episode 8: Rekviem / Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Alexander Cigale, Poet and Translator
Professor Alexandra Harrington, Durham University
Episode 9: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Associate Professor Alice Ridout, Algoma University
Professor Roberta Rubenstein, American University
Professor Susan Watkins, Leeds Beckett University
Episode 10: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Dr. Wamuwi Mbao, Stellenbosch University
Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Royal Holloway, University of London