Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to co
Embattled and arrogant, the novelist and painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was deeply immersed in Mo
What makes a short story a short story? What can a short story do that a novel can’t? Can a story ev
In 1818, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley published his classic poem “Ozymandias,” depicting t
Vincent O’Neill hails from Sandycove, Dublin, where he grew up in the shadow of the tower made famou
What books are essential? Who has the authority to choose them, and what is their selection process?
In 1964, the Oxford professor John Barrington Wain wrote: “…Romeo and Juliet is as perfectly achieve
What works of literature are essential? When we start reading literature, where do we begin? The Col
In 1797, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge took two grains of opium and fell into a stupor. When he a
One of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (ca. 1603) is
For decades, the Master of Fine Arts degree has quietly dominated the American literary scene. There
Hamlet (ca 1599-1602) has been called the greatest play ever written in English – and even that migh
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) were the pole stars of the Lost Gen
China’s T’ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) valued poets and poetry like no other culture before or since.
Continuing the journey with a deeper look at the incredible achievements of St. Augustine (354 – 430
The journey continues! Host Jacke Wilson takes a look at one of the deepest thinkers in the Western
What is evil? Is it a force that lives outside us? Or something that dwells within? And how do we re
He was a supremely talented musician and composer – but was he the voice of his generation? Jacke an
Charles Dickens called the New Testament “the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in
Host Jacke Wilson is joined by special guest Radha Vatsal, author of the historical mystery A Front
Jacke and Mike reconsider the life and works of the great twentieth-century British novelist Graham
