This episode featured Edwin Frank, the editorial director of the New York Review Of Books Classics Series. Books featured in this episode included “Political Action” by Michael Walzer; “The Mad and the Bad” by Jean-Patrick Manchette;

“Return to Romance" by Ogden Whitney; “Sand” by Wolfgang Herndorf; and “Naked Earth” by Eileen Chang. This episode first aired on May 26th, 2019.