Archive - Desperate Readers

XXXV. Ethics and Aesthetics

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Dec 14, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

44:33

Desperate Readers Newsletter #2

Notes on Nawal El Saadawi

Dec 13, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

November 2023

XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Nov 30, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

43:34

Desperate Readers Newsletter #1

Notes on Vladimir Nabokov

Nov 29, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

XXXIII. How Did they ever Make a Podcast of Lolita

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Nov 23, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

45:53

XXXII. It Gives Two Turns!

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Nov 9, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

44:39

XXXI. The Labyrinth of Inhumanity

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Nov 3, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

48:25

October 2023

XXX. Rage (or What is Achilles’s Problem?): the Iliad by Homer

What's Achilles's problem?

Oct 19, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

53:55

XXIX. Desperate and Visceral: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Welcome to the official first episode of Season Two!

Oct 12, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

55:32

Bonus: The House of Asterion by Jorges Luis Borges

In a special Bonus episode, Niko and Tatiana read the short story The House of Asterion by Jorges Luis Borges.

Oct 5, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

22:41

August 2023

XXVIII. Aztec Eyes: Axolotl by Julio Cortázar.

This episode wraps up the metamorphosis trilogy with a short story about weird little guys.

Aug 3, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

30:47

July 2023

XXVII. Of Things Transformed: The Metamorphoses by Ovid

Jul 20, 2023 •

Tatiana and Niko

38:24

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