February 27, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Homer's Odyssey. If it was Homer's If Homer was even real. Anyway, that stuff doesn't really...Read more
March 6, 2014 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least family-friendly family dramas in the history of family dramas, Oedipus Rex....Read more
March 13, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Hamlet, William Shakespeare's longest and most-performed play. People love Hamlet. The play ...Read more
March 20, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you MORE about Bill Shakespeare's Hamlet. John talks about gender roles in Hamlet, and what kind of po...Read more
March 27, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green teaches you about Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Sure, you know Frankenstein the cultural phenomenon, but...Read more
April 3, 2014 • 12m
In which John Green continues to teach you about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. You'll learn about romantic vs Romantic, the latter ...Read more
April 10, 2014 • 13m
In which John Green teaches you about Charlotte Brontë's classic coming of age novel, Jane Eyre. Look, we don't like to make judgm...Read more
April 17, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you about Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about Igboland, a region in mode...Read more
April 24, 2014 • 9m
In which John Green concludes teaching you about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about the historical contexts of ...Read more
May 1, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about Harper Lee's famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's p...Read more
May 8, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you MORE about To Kill a Mockingbird. In this installment, John teaches you about race, class, and gen...Read more
May 15, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietn...Read more
May 22, 2014 • 10m
In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was publ...Read more
May 29, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you upfront, this book is something of a downer. That's ...Read more
June 5, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about the poetry of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a poet and playwright in the first half o...Read more
June 12, 2014 • 11m
In which John Green teaches you about the poetry of Sylvia Plath. When a lot of people think about Sylvia Plath, they think about ...Read more