Aug. 4, 2026
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In Great Detective! An Adventure for Two People, you and a friend race through the streets of foggy London, testing your crime-solving abilities as Sherlock Holmes and his new sidekick. Each reader experiences the narrative from a different character’s point of view, coming together at key moments to decide where the story will go next. Can the two of you stay one step ahead of the criminals—and each other?
Episode 830: Stendhal with Hadley Suter
We often say it's important for a person to be "authentic," but what does that mean? Why is that necessarily a good thing? In Episode 830 of the History of Literature Podcast, Jacke talks to author Hadley Suter (Becoming Stendhal: The Performance o…
Episode 829: The Friendship of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell with Susan Dunne
Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, two of the leading novelists of the 19th century, shared a remarkable literary friendship. After Charlotte's death, Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë became one of the most famous -- and controversial -- lite…
