The opening episode for Season 3 is focused on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Three English teachers, each armed with a story of the others, share different perspectives on how to read Gatsby the character and the novel:...

Three English teachers passionately dissect Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale. They examine how this book impacts them as women, as lovers of story, and as analysts of their current culture. There are some spoilers regarding the...

Three English teachers discuss the moving, tragic, and weighty book Night, by Elie Wiesel. Elie's story, as told in bitter flashback, awakens its readers to the horrible potential for man to commit evil. However, it also examines how hope and meaning...

Two high school English teachers and a Renaissance expert discuss the troubling qualities of William Shakespeare's Othello.  WARNING: Due to the nature of the play, there is some discussion of sexuality.

This month's discussion is atypical; rather than focusing on a print text, three English teachers argue the case for studying film as literature. The bulk of the conversation analyzes Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society. Each teacher also...

This month's discussion wrestles with the factors that contribute to identity, both as a natural consciousness and as individual gender definition, with Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls".

Three English teachers discuss the fascinating and complicated story of Shakespeare's King Lear. King Lear is both fun and frustrating, and obvious and ambiguous. We tackle the tough questions about the likability and believability of...

Three English teachers discuss the social and historical context of Steinbeck's classic novella Of Mice and Men, and its treatment of the importance of human connections and aspirations. 

Three English teachers share both appreciation and frustration of Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Three English teachers discuss the universal importance of books in our society, all the while heeding the warning thatisRay Bradbury's classic novelFahrenheit 451.