outside of a dog

We discuss whether we are now living in Orwell's dystopian nightmare or whether he was just a bitter old misogynist who hated the NHS.

Recommendations:

Equilibrium (dir. Kurt Wimmer)

Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam)

In the last episode of 2015, we discuss one of the year's most celebrated publications, Miranda July's debut novel, and argue about its quirky characters, its hipster cred and who of us is the bigger hypocrite (Spoiler: we both are).

Recommendations:

The Platinum Age of Animation (Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, Bob's Burgers, ...)

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton

In the second part of our Harry Potter crossover, the Dogs and the Science Priests cover the series' depiction of death, its characters growing up and the future of Potterworld.

Recommendations:

Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

John Burnside, A Summer of Drowning

Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms

China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

It's a special holiday crossover special two-part special! We chat with Dennis and Annika from Science Pie (http://www.sciencepie.org/) about the probably most popular book series ever. In Part I, we cover the social structure of the wizarding world, Harry's heroic journey, and our personal journey with the books.

We discuss whether Bechdel's epochal graphic novel about childhood, memory and discovering one's identity is actually worth reading. A little hint: It is!

Recommendations:

Art Spiegelman, Maus

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Come with us into the uncanny world of arbitrary justice, paranoia and fat policemen who steal your breakfast.

Recommendations:

David Lynch's oeuvre

The Trial (dir. Orson Welles)

Tom LaFarge, The Crimson Bears

Alan Bennett, Kafka's Dick

Halloween is over, but the scary stuff isn't. We read one of the most important works by the grandfather of horror literature, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and talk about its scariness, its world-view and the all-important difference between Great Old Ones and Elder Things.

Recommendations:

Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)

Thomas Ligotti's short stories

Join us on our journey to medieval Scotland, where witches, war and really on the nose imagery haunt the mortals.

Recommendations:

Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

Macbeth (dir. Justin Kurzel)

William Shakespeare, Richard III

All the stupid stuff we said about Macbeth in previous recordings.

We go beyond the "chick lit" label and read Jane Austen's first novel, discuss its social and cultural scope and why Willoughby is a fuckboi.

Recommendations:

Sense and Sensibility (dir. Ang Lee)

Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion)