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The Essay Episodes

    The CookoutA Taste of Summer in America

    3/5 Author TC Boyle considers how cookouts are memorable markers of his American summers.

    CheeseheadsA Taste of Summer in America

    2/5 American author Nathan Englander discovers an obsession with cheese in Midwestern markets.

    Corn on the CobA Taste of Summer in America

    1/5 Author Susan Orlean celebrates corn on the cob, integral to an American summer.

    Wagner and AdornoWagner's Philosophers

    5/5 Professor John Deathridge explores the posthumous reputation of Wagner in the 20th century

    Wagner and NietzscheWagner's Philosophers

    4/5 Michael Tanner explores the relationship between Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.

    Wagner and SchopenhauerWagner's Philosophers

    3/5 Christopher Janaway explores Wagner's encounter with the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

    Wagner and the Philosophy of RevolutionWagner's Philosophers

    2/5 AC Grayling focuses on the crucial years before and after the Dresden uprising of 1849.

    Wagner and German IdealismWagner's Philosophers

    1/5 Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Wagner.

    GreeceLiving Abroad

    5/5 Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Greece in the early 1960s.

    ItalyLiving Abroad

    4/5 Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in early 1960s Italy.

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