S4 Ep76: On Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and the Polanski and Cohen Film Treatments

S4 Ep75: Post Office, Charles Bukowski's Terrible Debut Novel

S4 Ep74: Unworld and the problem of literary science-fiction

S4 Ep73: Comedic Tones and Tragic Times in Otessa Moshfegh's "Lapvona"

S4 Ep72: Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf: A Perfect Novel

S4 Ep71: In Ascension and the perils of a needless re-reading

S4 Ep70: Beautiful Emptiness in Samantha Harvey's "Orbital"

S4 Ep69: Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom

S4 Ep68: How Bruce Wagner's brave and lazy The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories suffered and benefited from the culture wars

S4 Ep67: The Fun but Empty Calories of Danielewski's House of Leaves

S4 Ep66: Are Aesthetic Properties Real? (With a Discussion of the Film LFO)

S4 Ep65: What is the illusion in The Book of Illusions?

S4 Ep64: RIP David Lynch - On "Eraserhead," "Lost Highway," "Inland Empire," and "Catching the Big Fish"

S4 Ep63: A Storm Painted on a Low Ceiling in Glen Slater's "Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age"

S4 Ep62: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night: Thematic Complexity, Aesthetic Simplicity

S4 Ep61: Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, and Others: What is Bad Writing?

S4 Ep60: AI, Writing, and Literature (with a bit of film thrown in)

S4 Ep59: Uneven Greatness in Melville's Billy Budd and Piazza Tales

S4 Ep58: Apocalyptic Conspiracies: Theodore Roszak's Flicker

S4 Ep57: Omensetter's Luck and the Demise of Hard Fiction