Novelist Teju Cole and scholar Tara Menon join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels inspire readers to wrestle with difficult ideas. From Shelley's Frankenstein to Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, how have novels helped us think more ethically about the world we inhabit?
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