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The Big Book Project

The Big Book Project

Written by: Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel
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 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! Hosted by Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel. Atreyee is an anthropologist, a teacher, a published poet, and an amateur violinist. Bhavin is a lawyer and teacher, and learns the tabla and the piano.Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 4: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

    Episode 4: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    Aug 24 2025

    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.
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    25 mins
  • Episode 3: Terry Eagleton, After Theory

    Episode 3: Terry Eagleton, After Theory
    Mar 12 2023

    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!
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    31 mins
  • Episode 2: Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Episode 2: Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Oct 10 2022

    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!
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    46 mins
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