A Year Of Great Books

Read Laura Miller’s introduction to Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Hear Laura and Will discuss the book in a members-only podcast.

1. Introduction
2. Which Edition Should I Get?
3. How Modern Is Tristram Shandy?
4. Tristram Shandy's Amazing First Sentence
5. Literature’s Greatest Mansplainer
6. In Praise of Uncle Toby
7. How Tristram Shandy Became a Bestseller
8. Tristram Shandy: The Comic Book
9. Conclusion: A Triumphant Failure
10. FULL EPISODE: About Tristram Shandy
11. (transcript)
12. BONUS EPISODE: Understanding Tristram Shandy

Read Laura Miller’s introduction to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Hear Laura and Jacob discuss the book in a members-only podcast.

1. Introduction
2. The Plight of the Victorian Governess
3. What Do Appearances Mean in Jane Eyre?
4. Growing Up Brontë
5. FULL EPISODE: About Jane Eyre
6. SPECIAL GIFTS: Hear Thandie Newton perform Jane Eyre (Supplies limited) / Win a copy of Jane Eyre, courtesy of Penguin Classics

Read Laura Miller's introduction to My Ántonia Hear Laura and Slate TV critic Willa Paskin discuss the book on a members-only podcast.

1. Introduction
2. Kurt Andersen on Cather and Nebraska
3. Cather’s biographer on My Ántonia
4. FULL EPISODE: About My Ántonia

Read Laura Miller’s introduction to Barchester Towers and claim your complimentary audiobook, courtesy of Audible.

1. Introduction
2. How Barchester Towers Makes Ecclesiastical Politics Fun
3. Trollope’s Worthless Young Men
4. Simon Vance on Narrating Trollope
5. FULL EPISODE: About Barchester Towers

Read Laura Miller's introduction to Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones.

1. Introduction
2. FULL EPISODE: About Ficciones

Join Laura Miller and John Dickerson in reading Slate’s final Great Books selection.

1. Introduction
2. The Long-Standing (and Kind of Trolly) Divide Between Dostoevsky People and Tolstoy People
3. FULL EPISODE: About The Brothers Karamazov