Listen to the trailer for Literate, a new podcast about the "best" books. Each episode, literary scholars Alicia Broggi and Erica Lombard discuss one book on the New York Public Library’s 1995 “Books of the Century” list. They learn about its author and history, talk to experts, and ask whether it really is one of the books of twentieth century.

Episodes drop every two weeks, starting on September 3, with the first episode on Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.