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XXXII. It Gives Two Turns!
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XXXII. It Gives Two Turns!

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Tatiana and Niko
Nov 09, 2023
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Spooky season comes late to the pod as Niko and Tatiana invite special guest Alex to talk about Henry James's ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. The three discuss psychoanalytic interpretation, turning, the unknowable, and of course, ghosts. 

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Deborah Kerr in The Innocents (1961) (Source.)

The Turn of the Screw (Source.)

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Desperate Readers
Desperate Readers
Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
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