We talk about one of the most influential comics of all time, whether graphic novels are literature and why Alan Moore hates fun.

Recommendations:

Neil Gaiman et al, The Sandman

Alan Moore et al, Promethea

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note

We discuss enlightenment, death, sex and noses in one of the most unconventional novels of English literature in general, and the 18th Century in particular.

Recommendations:

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

In our latest episode, we discuss how much Harper Lee's debut novel is actually about racism, whether it is a children's book and why Atticus Finch is stupid.

Recommendations:

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Lolita is one of the most controversial books of the 20th Century. But is it any good? Can we identify with the narrator - maybe too much? And can the story of a monstrous crime be told beautifully?

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Umberto Eco, "Granita"

In which we discuss personal despair, snobbery, totalitarianism and whether T.S. Eliot was a guy

Recommendations:

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Joyce, Ulysses