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Welcome back! Here's the much-delayed fourth episode of the Big Book Project, in which Atreyee and Bhavin talks about one of the biggest books around: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. We also talk about Isiah Berlin's essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox, Brian Klaas's Fluke, and Robert Sapolsky's Determined.

Here's the third episode of the Big Book Project, in which Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel take on some of our favourite, often obscure and unpopular books, and unpack the ways in which they have made sense to us.

In this episode, we take on Terry Eagleton's After Theory. We talk about Eagleton's attack on postmodernism, and Atreyee plans a tip to the pub to talk new theory. Tune in!

And we're back with the second episode of the Big Book Project, in which Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel take on some of our favourite, often obscure and unpopular books, and unpack the ways in which they have made sense to us.

In this episode, we talk about Walter Benjamin's famous essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. We talk about the essay's impact on literary, film and cultural theory, and also debate sneakerheads and doomscrolling. Tune in!

Big books demand heavy work - and we’re up for it! In this podcast, we take on some of our favourite, often obscure and unpopular books, and unpack the ways in which they have made sense to us. Tune in!

In our first episode, we talk about Aijaz Ahmad's In Theory. While Atreyee had been hearing about Ahmad for a while, she only got around to reading the book once it hit the news after the author's passing away. Bhavin claims this is one of the most difficult books he has ever had to read. Tune in and listen to them talk about Ahmad, the book, and what lessons a set of essays written last century may still have for our present times.