The Great Books: Recent Episodes
National Review
John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of Houghton University to discuss 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Goethe.
John J. Miller is joined by Jeff Cavins of Ascension Press to discuss the Acts of the Apostles.
John J. Miller is joined by Silvina Sironi of the Word on Fire Institute to discuss 'Dark Night of the Soul' by St. John of the Cross.
John J. Miller is joined by Titus Techera of the American Cinema Foundation to discuss 'Tender Is the Night' by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
John J. Miller is joined by Erin Cline of Georgetown University to discuss 'The Analects' by Confucius.
John J. Miller is joined by Dedra Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss Larry McMurtry's 'Lonesome Dove.'
John J. Miller is joined by Ruth Franklin to discuss 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank.
John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho.
John J. Miller is joined by Holly Ordway of the Word on Fire Institute to discuss J. R. R. Tolkien's 'Leaf by Niggle.'
John J. Miller is joined by Fr. John Wauck of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross to discuss 'Quo Vadis' by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
John J. Miller is joined by Andrew Moore of St. Thomas University in Canada to discuss 'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish.
John J. Miller is joined by Rachel Kousser of the City University of New York to discuss 'The Campaigns of Alexander' by Arrian.
John J. Miller is joined by Graham Hillard of the James C. Martin Center for Academic Renewal to discuss Ian Fleming's 'Casino Royale.'
John J. Miller is joined by Lorraine Murphy of Hillsdale College to discuss the stories of Nikolai Gogol.
John J. Miller is joined by Kirsten Hall Herlin of the University of Austin to discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'
John J. Miller is joined by Steven Petersheim of Toccoa Falls College to discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Marble Faun.'
John J. Miller is joined by R. J. Snell of the Witherspoon Institute to discuss Thomas Aquinas's 'Summa Theologica.'
John J. Miller is joined by Ramie Targoff of Brandeis University to discuss "The Tragedy of Mariam" by Elizabeth Cary.
John J. Miller is joined by Adam Carrington of Hillsdale College to discuss the Declaration of Independence.
John J. Miller is joined by Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to discuss the Dead Sea Scrolls.
John J. Miller is joined by Renee Berglund of Simmons University to discuss Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species.'
John J. Miller is joined by Mark Cirino of the University of Evansville to discuss Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms.'
John J. Miller is joined by Gil Troy of McGill University to discuss Theodor Herzl's book, 'The Jewish State.'
John J. Miller is joined by Elizabeth Baird Hardy of Mayland Community College to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'Till We Have Faces.'
John J. Miller is joined by Dedra Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth.'
John J. Miller is joined by Katrin Kogman-Appel of the University of Muenster to discuss the Kennicott Bible.
John J. Miller is joined by Mick Brown of The Telegraph to discuss W. Somerset Maugham's 'The Razor's Edge.'
John J. Miller is joined by Eileen M. Hunt of the University of Notre Dame to discuss Mary Shelley's 'The Last Man.'
John J. Miller is joined by Christopher Busch of Hillsdale College to discuss John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
John J. Miller is joined by Christina Lambert of Hillsdale College to discuss T. S. Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party.'
John J. Miller is joined by Aaron Alexander Zubia of the University of Florida to discuss David Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature.'
John J. Miller is joined by James L. Swanson to discuss the Reverend John Williams's book 'The Redeemed Captive.'
John J. Miller is joined by Richard Janko of the University of Michigan to discuss the works of Philodemus.
John J. Miller is joined by James Brandon of Hillsdale College to discuss Sophocles's play, 'Oedipus Rex.'
John J. Miller is joined by Lorraine Murphy of Hillsdale College to discuss Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day.'
John J. Miller is joined by Kirsten Hall Herlin to discuss Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas.'
John J. Miller is joined by Haley Stewart of Word on Fire to discuss George MacDonald's 'The Golden Key.'
John J. Miller is joined by Benedict Whalen of Hillsdale College to discuss Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.'
John J. Miller is joined by Kirstin Hall to discuss Daniel Defoe's book, 'Robinson Crusoe.'
John J. Miller is joined by Monika Hilder of Trinity Western University to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'The Last Battle.'
John J. Miller is joined by Daniel B. Coupland to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'The Magician's Nephew.'
John J. Miller is joined by Meghan Cox Gurdon to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'The Horse and His Boy.'
John J. Miller is joined by Elizabeth Baird Hardy to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'The Silver Chair.'
John J. Miller is joined by Bradley J. Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.'
John J. Miller is joined by David C. Downing of Wheaton College to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'Prince Caspian.'
John J. Miller is joined by Michael Ward of the University of Oxford to discuss 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' the first book in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series.
John J. Miller is joined by Emma Smith of the University of Oxford to discuss Shakespeare's 'First Folio.'
John J. Miller is joined by Meredith F. Small of Cornell University to discuss 'The Travels of Marco Polo.'
John J. Miller is joined by Janina Ramirez of the University of Oxford to discuss 'The Book of Margery Kempe.'
John J. Miller is joined by Eckart Frahm of Yale University to discuss the Babylonian Creation Story.
John J. Miller is joined by Adam Carrington of Hillsdale College to discuss William Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus.'
John J. Miller is joined by Dedra Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss Rose Wilder Lane's book, 'The Discovery of Freedom.'
John J. Miller is joined by Fr. Juan R. Velez to discuss John Henry Newman's 'Apologia Pro Vita Sua.'
John J. Miller is joined by David Mikics of the University of Houston to discuss Joseph Roth's book, 'The Radetzky March.'
John J. Miller is joined by Nicholas Babich of Notre Dame to discuss Robert Hugh Benson's book, 'Lord of the World.'
John J. Miller is joined by Korey Garibaldi of Notre Dame to discuss Frank Yerby's 'The Foxes of Harrow.'
John J. Miller is joined by Lorraine Murphy of Hillsdale College to discuss Henry James's book, 'The Wings of the Dove.'
John J. Miller is joined by Karen Swallow Prior of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to discuss Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty.'
John J. Miller is joined by Cheryl Miller of the Hertog Foundation to discuss Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence.'
John J. Miller is joined by Monika B. Hilder of Trinity Western University to discuss 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' by the Brothers Grimm.
John J. Miller is joined by John Hood of the John William Pope Foundation to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs's book, 'A Princess of Mars.'
John J. Miller is joined by David R. Slavitt to discuss Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso.'
John J. Miller is joined by Richard Brookhiser of National Review to discuss 'The Rules of Civility,' which were made famous by George Washington.
John J. Miller is joined by Luke Sheahan of Duquesne University to discuss Robert Nisbet's book, 'The Quest for Community.'
John J. Miller is joined by Michael D. Aeschliman to discuss Malcolm Muggeridge's book, 'Winter in Moscow.'
John J. Miller is joined by Anne Boyd Rioux to discuss the works of Constance Fenimore Woolson.
John J. Miller is joined by Marion Turner of the University of Oxford to discuss Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale.'
John J. Miller is joined by Carlos Bobone to discuss Luís Vaz de Camões's 'The Lusiads.'
John J. Miller is joined by Holly Ordway of the Word on Fire Institute and Houston Christian University to discuss 'Bulfinch's Mythology' by Thomas Bulfinch.
John J. Miller is joined by Justin Jackson of Hillsdale College to discuss 'The Nativity Story of the Gospels.'
John J. Miller is joined by Angel Adams Parham of the University of Virginia to discuss W. E. B. DuBois's book, 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
John J. Miller is joined by Cat Baab-Muguira to discuss James Hilton's book, 'Lost Horizon.'
John J. Miller is joined by Loraine Murphy to discuss the essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss Christine de Pizan's book, 'The Book of the City of the Ladies.'
John J. Miller is joined by James Matthew Wilson of the University of St. Thomas to discuss the poetry of Robert Frost.
John J. Miller is joined by Laura Bates of Indiana State University to discuss William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
John J. Miller is joined by Bradley J. Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss the ghost stories of Russell Kirk.
John J. Miller is joined by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson to discuss Tim Powers's book, 'Declare.'
John J. Miller is joined by Veronica Brooks of Hillsdale College to discuss Cicero's 'On the Ideal Orator.'
John J. Miller is joined by Dedra Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss Willa Cather's, 'The Professor's House.'
John J. Miller is joined by Sophie Ibbotson of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs to discuss 'The Baburnama.'
John J. Miller is joined by Christopher Scalia of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss Muriel Spark's book, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.'
John J. Miller is joined by Pat Bart of Hillsdale College to discuss 'The Book of Ruth.'
John J. Miller is joined by Mark Clague of the University of Michigan to discuss Francis Scott Key's 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
John J. Miller is joined by Michael Warren Davis of the Sophia Institute Press to discuss G. K. Chesterton's book, 'The Innocence of Father Brown.'
John J. Miller is joined by Andrew Latham of Macalester College to discuss Thomas Hobbes's book, 'Leviathan.'
John J. Miller is joined by Miranda Seymour to discuss Jean Rhys's book, 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'
John J. Miller is joined by Karen Swallow Prior of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to discuss Thomas Hardy's book, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
John J. Miller is joined by Matthew Continetti of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss Tom Wolfe's book, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities.'
John J. Miller is joined by Mark Cirino of the University of Evansville to discuss Ernest Hemingway's book, 'The Sun Also Rises.'
John J. Miller is joined by Hana Videen to discuss 'Judith' and the Old English 'Wordhord.'
John J. Miller is joined by Sam Jay Gold to discuss Karel Čapek's 'War with the Newts.'
John J. Miller is joined by Loraine Murphy of Hillsdale College to discuss Henry James's book, "The Turn of the Screw."
John J. Miller is joined by Jeffrey A. Hertel of Hillsdale College to discuss Friedrich Schiller's book, 'William Tell.'
John J. Miller is joined by Catherine Baab-Muguira to discuss Kingsley Amis's book, 'Lucky Jim.'
John J. Miller is joined by Victoria Nelson of Goddard College to discuss Robert Aickman's short stories.
John J. Miller is joined by Lloyd Llewellym-Jones of Cardiff University to discuss Ferdowsi's 'The Shahnameh.'
John J. Miller is joined by Rebecca Wragg Sykes of the University of Liverpool to discuss William Golding's 'The Inheritors.'
John J. Miller is joined by Jason Peters of Hillsdale College to discuss Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'
John J. Miller is joined by Dedra Birzer of Hillsdale College to discuss Wilkie Collins's 'The Woman in White.'
John J. Miller is joined by Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner to discuss Wallace Stegner's book 'Angle of Repose.'
John J. Miller is joined by Michael Ward of the University of Oxford to discuss C. S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength.'
John J. Miller is joined by Monika Hilder of Trinity Western University to discuss the second book in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, 'Perelandra.'
John J. Miller is joined by David Whalen of Hillsdale College to discuss the first book of C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, 'Out of the Silent Planet.'
John J. Miller is joined by Claudia Stokes of Trinity University to discuss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 'The Gates Ajar.'
John J. Miller is joined by Patrick Timmis of Hillsdale College to discuss The Book of Common Prayer.
John J. Miller is joined by Alan Judd to discuss Christopher Marlowe's book, 'The Jew of Malta.'
John J. Miller is joined by Cynthia L. Haven to discuss Czeslaw Milosz's book 'The Captive Mind.'
John J. Miller is joined by Jenna Storey of Furman University to discuss William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.'
John J. Miller is joined by Miriam Gogol of Mercy College to discuss Theodore Dreiser's book 'Sister Carrie.'
John J. Miller is joined by Diana Schaub of Loyola University Maryland to discuss Abraham Lincoln's greatest speeches.
John J. Miller is joined by Holly Ordway of the Word on Fire Institute to discuss J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit.'
John J. Miller is joined by David Bosco of Indiana University to discuss Hugo Grotius's 'The Free Sea.'
John J. Miller is joined by Cheri Blomquist to discuss Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'
John J. Miller is joined by Catherine Baab-Muguira to discuss the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
John J. Miller is joined by Roosevelt Montas of Columbia University to discuss Plato's 'The Apology.'
John J. Miller is joined by Ben Yagoda to discuss 'The Gift of the Magi' and the Short Stories of O. Henry.
John J. Miller is joined by Natalie Taylor of Skidmore College to discuss Henry James's 'The Bostonians.'
John J. Miller is joined by Kyle Harper of the University of Oklahoma to discuss Petronius's 'The Satyricon.'
John J. Miller is joined by Lorraine Murphy of Hillsdale College to discuss James Joyce's book, 'Dubliners.'
John J. Miller is joined by Barry Strauss of Cornell University to discuss Josephus's 'The Jewish War.'