Novels and Ideas (with Teju Cole & Tara Menon)

Episode 1 March 08, 2021 01:22:33
Novels and Ideas (with Teju Cole & Tara Menon)
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Novels and Ideas (with Teju Cole & Tara Menon)

Mar 08 2021 | 01:22:33

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Show Notes

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?

 

You can find complete show notes here and purchase books from our independent-bookshop partner, Harvard Book Store, here.

 

 

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