Two Month Review
Each “season” of Two Month Review highlights a different new and amazing work of world literature, reading it slowly over the course of eight to nine episodes. Featuring a rotating set of literary guests—from authors to booksellers, critics, and translators—the individual episodes recap a short section of the book and use that as a springboard for a fun (and often irreverent) discussion about literature in a general sense, pop culture, reading approaches, and much more. Talking about great books doesn't need to be deadly serious, and the levity of 2MR makes it accessible to everyone (even if you’re not rea...
Episodes
TMR 31.7: "Morgenstern or Mohrenfern or Whatever" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
about 17 hours ago
49m
TMR 31.6: "Our Children Are Not Our Possessions" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Jul. 10
50m
TMR 31.5: "I Could Have Been The Conductor of a Shawm Band" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Jul. 2
53m
TMR 31.4: "When I Was a Barge" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Jun. 29
1h 1m
TMR 31.3: "Eating Is an Act of Consciousness" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Jun. 12
1h 2m
TMR 31.2: "You're Just Not Used to Being Treated Like a Lady" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
Jun. 5
55m
TMR 31.1: "I Had to Sleep for 808 Years" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
May. 29
52m
TMR 30.8: "The Fatherland or Death!" [I the Supreme]
Apr. 24
1h 6m
TMR 30.7: "I Should Like to See You Do What I Do!" [I the Supreme]
Apr. 17
50m
TMR 30.6: "Second-Rate Attilas of the Disunited Provinces" [I the Supreme]
Apr. 9
42m
TMR 30.5: "I Am Highly Optimistic But Not Amnesiac" [I the Supreme]
Apr. 3
1h 9m
TMR 30.4: "Construction of the Super-Race by Means of Nutrition" [I the Supreme]
Mar. 27
55m
TMR 30.3: "Man Is an Idiot" [I the Supreme]
Mar. 20
58m
TMR 30.2: "Representation of Writing As Representation" [I the Supreme]
Mar. 13
1h 2m
TMR 30.1: "They're Daring to Parody My Supreme Decrees Now" [I the Supreme]
Mar. 6
1h 16m
TMR 29.12: "Writing Is Hiding From History" [The Tunnel]
Jan. 22
1h 19m
TMR 29.11: "I Appreciate That Answer" [The Tunnel]
Jan. 15
53m
TMR 29.10: "Curve Him and Unnerve Him" [The Tunnel]
Jan. 10
1h 6m
TMR 29.9: "To Orchestrate the Common Hate" [The Tunnel]
Jan. 2
1h 2m
TMR 29.8: "It Is Betty Boop" [The Tunnel]
Dec. 18
55m
TMR 29.7: "Men Are Tormented by Men" [The Tunnel]
Dec. 11
1h 8m
TMR 29.6: "Welcome to History" [The Tunnel]
Dec. 4
1h 9m
TMR 29.5: "Historians Make History" [The Tunnel]
Nov. 20
51m
TMR 29.4: "What Principle Is Not a Prejudice?" [The Tunnel]
Nov. 13
1h 1m
TMR 29.3: "I Think He Was Loud Because He Was Alone" [The Tunnel]
Nov. 6
54m
TMR 29.2: "Our Proper Bliss Depends on What We Blame" [The Tunnel]
Oct. 30
1h 16m
TMR 29.1: "We Must Study the Fascism of the Heart" [The Tunnel]
Oct. 23
1h 2m
TMR 28.6: "Preparation H" [Vineland]
Oct. 2
1h 14m
TMR 28.5: "Is This The Start of a Cheap Romance" [Vineland]
Sep. 25
1h 11m
TMR 28.4: "The People's Republic of Rock and Roll" [Vineland]
Sep. 18
58m
TMR 28.3: "This Perhaps Demented Karmology Hustle" [Vineland]
Sep. 11
59m
TMR 28.2: "A Sort of Esalen Institute for Lady Asskickers" [Vineland]
Sep. 4
59m
TMR 28.1: "They Love it When You Owe Money" [Vineland]
Aug. 28
1h
TMR 27.8: "A Border, Gentlemen, Is For Crossing" [Tomb of Sand]
Aug. 21
1h 42m
TMR 27.7: "She, The Child, The Buddha" [Tomb of Sand]
Aug. 14
53m
TMR 27.6: "The Calculus Gets Scrambled" ["Tomb of Sand"]
Aug. 7
1h 10m
TMR 27.5: "Translation Isn't Easy" [Tomb of Sand]
Jul. 31
57m
TMR 27.4: "Rag-Tag Shoulder Sack-Toting Gang" [Tomb of Sand]
Jul. 25
47m
TMR 27.3: "And She Begins to Make Music" [Tomb of Sand]
Jul. 17
39m
TMR 27.2: "I Am the Wishing Tree" [Tomb of Sand]
Jul. 10
57m
TMR 27.1: "Dude, Can't You Laugh?" [Tomb of Sand]
Jul. 3
54m
TMR 26.9: "The Two Women Kissed and Separated " [The Golden Notebook]
Jun. 26
1h 8m
TMR 26.8: "I No Longer Had a Sense of Time" [The Golden Notebook]
Jun. 12
58m
TMR 26.7: "And What Is the Next Stage?" [The Golden Notebook]
Jun. 5
55m
TMR 26.6: "The Dream Marked a Change in Anna" [The Golden Notebook]
May. 29
1h 3m
TMR 26.5: "Everything Will Be As Usual, In Fact" [The Golden Notebook]
May. 23
41m
TMR 26.4: "You Can Be Very, Very Serious in a Musical" [The Golden Notebook]
May. 15
58m
TMR 26.3: "Literature Is Analysis After the Event" [The Golden Notebook]
May. 8
48m
TMR 26.2: "Mashopi Hotel" [The Golden Notebook]
May. 1
51m
TMR 26.1: "Chaos, That's the Point" [The Golden Notebook]
Apr. 24
1h 2m
TMR 25.9: "Discipline and Anarchy" [Empire of the Senseless]
Apr. 10
1h 1m
TMR 25.8: "The USA Is a Dead Nation" [Empire of the Senseless]
Apr. 3
55m
TMR 25.7: "This Fortune Stuff Is Bullshit" [Empire of the Senseless]
Mar. 28
52m
TMR 25.6: "It Was a Dark Night for Pirates" [Empire of the Senseless]
Mar. 20
1h 6m
TMR 25.5: "I Was Befriending My Anger" [James]
Mar. 14
59m
TMR 25.4: "Obvious Confidence Scheme" [James]
Mar. 6
51m
TMR 25.3: "If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Learning" [James]
Feb. 28
45m
TMR 25.2: "With My Pencil, I Wrote Myself into Being" [JAMES]
Feb. 20
1h 6m
TMR 25.1: "Papa, why do we have to learn this?" [JAMES]
Feb. 13
1h
TMR 24.10: "What Comes Next Is What Remains" [Melvill]
Jan. 16
1h 14m
TMR 24.9: "I Hate Thinking about Thinking about Myself Like This" [Melvill]
Jan. 10
53m
S8 E24
TMR 24.8: "Fampiro" [Melvill]
Dec. 31
1h 1m
TMR 24.7: "The White Delirium" [Melvill]
Dec. 20
1h 14m
TMR 24.6: "Liquidate It At Cost" [Melvill]
Dec. 13
1h 20m
TMR 24.5: "Very Charming." [Confidence-Man]
Dec. 5
1h 3m
TMR 24.4: "How Unreal All This Is!" [Confidence-Man]
Nov. 27
1h 4m
TMR 24.3: "You Are a Punster" [Confidence-Man]
Nov. 21
1h
TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]
Nov. 14
1h 4m
Welcome! And New TMR Episode
Nov. 8
59m
TMR 24.1: "May I Ask if You Have Confidence?" [Confidence-Man]
Nov. 7
59m
TMR Supplement #2: "Joytime Killbox" by Brian Wood
Oct. 31
1h 9m
TMR Supplement #1: "Dear Dickhead" by Virginie Despentes & Frank Wynne
Oct. 15
1h 18m
TMR 23.9: "My Maps Are Out of Date" [Lanark]
Aug. 16
55m
TMR 23.8: "The Critic Fights Back" [Lanark]
Aug. 9
1h 12m
TMR 23.7: "Not a Domestic Man" [Lanark]
Aug. 2
52m
TMR 23:6 "Upon This Spot King Edward Had Lunch After Stalking" [Lanark]
Jul. 26
1h 11m
TMR 23.5: "His Brain Rotten with Resentful Dreams" [Lanark]
Jul. 22
54m
TMR 23.4: “Homo A Se Coctum Esumque Crustum Est Hoc Fecit Separation” [Lanark]
Jul. 12
50m
TMR 23.3: "Normal Underworlds" [Lanark]
Jun. 28
1h 3m
TMR 23.2: "Can He Help Lanark Out of Hell?" [LANARK]
Jun. 21
1h 4m
TMR 23.1: "Book Three" [Lanark]
Jun. 14
1h
TMR 22.10: "Butterfly Coma" [Praiseworthy]
May. 11
44m
TMR 22.9: "One Donkey at a Time" [Praiseworthy]
May. 6
50m
TMR 22.8: "Madder Than White Heat" [Praiseworthy]
Apr. 27
59m
TMR 22.7: "@CheapIllegalPeopleSmuggler" [Praiseworthy]
Apr. 23
58m
TMR 22.6: "Nuisance Bugger Donkeys" [Praiseworthy]
Apr. 12
1h
TMR 22.5: "Maximum Superhero Cop-God" [Praiseworthy]
Apr. 5
1h
TMR 22.4: "Devotion to Off-Grid Religions" [Praiseworthy]
Mar. 29
56m
TMR 22.3: "Tommyhawk!" [Praiseworthy]
Mar. 22
45m
TMR 22.2: "God Donkey" [Praiseworthy]
Mar. 15
42m
TMR 22.1: "Kick the Haze in its Guts" [Praiseworthy]
Mar. 5
1h
TMR 21.8: "MOON IS A MENACE" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Jan. 26
44m
TMR 21.7: "Taro Tsujimoto" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Jan. 19
49m
TMR 21.6: "Interview with a Mirror" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Jan. 12
44m
TMR 21.5: "A-Bomb Destroys Downtown Buffalo" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Jan. 8
51m
TMR 21.4: "The Second Bae" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Jan. 2
43m
TMR 21.3: "Wildwording" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Dec. 23
1h 20m
TMR 21.2: "2333" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Dec. 15
45m
TMR 21.1: "What Is History?" [Same Bed Different Dreams]
Dec. 8
1h 22m
TMR 20.8: "Making It Up As We Goes Along" [MULLIGAN STEW]
Nov. 10
50m