Four-voice dialogues through the Harvard Classics and public-domain novels.https://dialogueswithalex.com/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-11/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-11/A dialogue on Cicero's tests of friendship and old age, and on the judgment and self-presentation in Roman letters.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-12/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-12/A dialogue on Smith's division of labor, bargaining power, commercial privilege, and the public institutions a prosperous society needs.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-13/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-13/A dialogue on Darwin's evidence for natural selection, the eye and fossil objections, and the limits of applying biology to human values.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-14/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-14/A dialogue on Plutarch's portraits of political character, public money, ambition, and the perils of comparing great lives.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-15/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-15/A dialogue on the Aeneid's divided vision of duty, Dido, Rome's promised future, and Aeneas' final act of violence.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-16/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-16/A dialogue on the gap between Don Quixote's heroic stories and the lives of Andrés, Marcela, Sancho, and the galley prisoners.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-17/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-17/A dialogue on Bunyan's public and inward trials and Walton's selective portraits of John Donne and George Herbert.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-18/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-18/A dialogue on Shahrazad's narrative strategy, nested pleas for mercy, and the difference between Sindbad the sailor and the porter.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-19/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-19/A dialogue on power, punishment, and belonging in four fables and tales from Harvard Classics Volume XVII.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-20/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-20/A dialogue on the screen, disguise, and family honor in three plays from the modern English drama volume.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-21/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-21/A dialogue comparing Marlowe's doomed scholar with Goethe's restless Faust and the human cost of his bargain to Margaret.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-22/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-22/A dialogue on Francesca, Marco Lombardo, and Piccarda, asking how Dante joins judgment, freedom, and compassion.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-23/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-23/A dialogue on Manzoni's threatened wedding, the Unnamed's conversion, plague, and the limits of calling suffering providential.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-24/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-24/A dialogue on hospitality, naming, Penelope's bed test, and the violence that complicates Odysseus' homecoming.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-25/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-25/A dialogue on Dana's working sailor's perspective, a captain's flogging, California hide labor, and memory after return.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-26/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-26/A close dialogue on Burke's aesthetics and politics: when does inherited feeling sharpen judgment, and when does it shelter power?Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-27/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-27/A close dialogue on Mill's crisis and liberty, Carlyle's account of character, and the authority of exemplary lives.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-28/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-28/A dialogue across six plays on prophecy, religious conviction, desire, hypocrisy, honor, and resistance.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-29/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-29/A close dialogue on how essays defend art, disguise satire, justify taste, and expose bad arguments against reform.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-30/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-30/A dialogue on education, science, labor, nature, and democracy in five essays from Volume 28.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-31/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-31/A close dialogue on Darwin's Galápagos observations, the limits of his records, and the human judgments in his travel narrative.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-32/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-32/A dialogue on how the scientific papers move from a visible event to an explanation of unseen processes.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-33/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-33/A dialogue on Cellini's account of artistic labor, violent self-defense, patronage, and the making of a heroic narrator.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-34/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-34/A dialogue on education, friendship, moral law, aesthetic freedom, and the contested authority of a classic.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-35/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-35/A dialogue on how three travel and ethnographic accounts turn observation into moral comparison and political claim.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-36/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-36/A dialogue on doubt, comparison, property, and fear across four contrasting works of early modern thought.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-37/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-37/A dialogue on three ways writers make a society visible: battle chronicle, spiritual romance, and social inventory.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-38/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-38/A dialogue on how rulers, dissenters, and reformers justify actions that expose others to risk.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-39/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-39/A dialogue on habit, perception, and causal inference across Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-40/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-40/A historical dialogue on circulation, vaccination, contagion, antisepsis, and the ethical stakes of medical inference.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-41/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-41/A dialogue on how five prefaces seek patrons, establish texts, confess limits, and instruct readers.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-42/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-42/A close dialogue on five poems and the different audiences they ask us to hear.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-43/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-43/A dialogue on landscape, memory, labor, and translation in five selections from the second poetry anthology.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-44/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-44/A close dialogue on how four dramatic and lyric voices ask to be trusted amid ambition, loss, and war.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-45/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-45/A dialogue on the promises, exclusions, and changing force of five documents in the American historical anthology.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-46/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-46/A dialogue on moral formation, suffering, limits of knowledge, neighbor-love, and the crossing of communal boundaries.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-47/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-47/A dialogue across four distinct religious selections on obligation, the self, and what a reader gains or loses by comparison.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-48/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-48/A dialogue on authority, testimony, and the cost of trying to control another person's response in five plays.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-49/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-49/A dialogue on craft, fraud, rank, and coercion across four plays from the second Elizabethan drama volume.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-50/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-50/A dialogue on Pascal's unfinished religious argument and his distinct approaches to geometry, experiment, diversion, and belief.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-51/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-51/A dialogue on heroic courage, obligation, foreknowledge, and the communities that survive or suffer a hero's choices.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-52/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-52/A dialogue on the anthology's reading plan, its promise of self-education, and the choices built into its indexes.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-53/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-53/A dialogue on the companion lectures' authority and the reader's responsibility to return from a guide to the primary works.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-farewell-to-arms/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-farewell-to-arms/A dialogue on Frederic and Catherine, war's machinery, retreat, and the limits of private refuge.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/A dialogue on childhood perception, pirate adventure, adult accusation, and the trial's uncertain truth.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-passage-to-india/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-passage-to-india/A dialogue on the mosque, Marabar accusation, trial, and the colonial limits of Aziz and Fielding's friendship.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/A dialogue on Stephen Dedalus's developing voice, school and religious authority, and the costs of his artistic departure.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-room-with-a-view/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/a-room-with-a-view/A dialogue on Lucy's choices, social tact, and the difference between seeing and speaking honestly.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/an-american-tragedy/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/an-american-tragedy/A dialogue on Clyde's ambition, Roberta's vulnerability, the lake, and the competing stories told at his trial.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/as-i-lay-dying/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/as-i-lay-dying/A dialogue on Faulkner's competing narrators, Addie's burial journey, and the gap between family duty and private need.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/babbitt/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/babbitt/A dialogue on conformity, commercial language, friendship, and the limits of Babbitt's rebellion.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/death-comes-for-the-archbishop/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/death-comes-for-the-archbishop/A dialogue on Latour's patient work, Vaillant's friendship, and the limits of a missionary's account of New Mexico.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/heart-of-darkness/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/heart-of-darkness/A dialogue on imperial extraction, Kurtz's final judgment, Marlow's lie, and the Africans the narrative keeps at a distance.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/howards-end/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/howards-end/A dialogue on connection, property, and the unequal costs of the Schlegels' encounter with the Wilcoxes and Leonard Bast.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/kim/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/kim/A dialogue on Kim's identity, the lama's quest, the Great Game, and the limits of an imperial adventure.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/lord-jim/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/lord-jim/A dialogue on Jim's leap from the Patna, Marlow's narration, and the cost of seeking redemption in Patusan.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/main-street/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/main-street/A dialogue on Carol Kennicott's reforming hopes, Gopher Prairie's defenses, and the meaning of her return.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/mrs-dalloway/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/mrs-dalloway/A dialogue on Woolf's shifting consciousness, Septimus's death, and Clarissa's party.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/my-antonia/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/my-antonia/A dialogue on memory, immigration, narrative possession, and Ántonia's life beyond Jim's account.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/nostromo/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/nostromo/A dialogue on the San Tomé silver, Charles Gould's ideal, Nostromo's reputation, and the people neglected by public legends.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/of-human-bondage/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/of-human-bondage/A dialogue on Philip Carey's disability, his attachment to Mildred, and the pattern he finally chooses for his life.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/parades-end/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/parades-end/A dialogue on Tietjens's code, the war's disruption of it, Valentine and Sylvia, and the series' changed final perspective.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/passing/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/passing/A dialogue on Irene's narration, Clare's freedom, racial danger, and the novel's unresolved ending.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/point-counter-point/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/point-counter-point/A dialogue on Huxley's contrapuntal form, competing ideas of wholeness, and the people sacrificed to elegant theories.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/sister-carrie/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/sister-carrie/A dialogue on Carrie's work, desire, stage success, and Hurstwood's descent through the novel's unequal economy.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/sons-and-lovers/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/sons-and-lovers/A dialogue on Gertrude Morel, Paul's relationships with Miriam and Clara, and the book's unfinished idea of freedom.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-age-of-innocence/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-age-of-innocence/A dialogue on Newland Archer's romantic judgment, May's intelligence, Ellen's choices, and the Paris ending.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-ambassadors/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-ambassadors/A dialogue on Strether's mission to Paris, his changing view of Chad and Madame de Vionnet, and the limits of belated freedom.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/A dialogue on passing, artistic ambition, racial violence, and the narrator's retrospective regret.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey/A dialogue on Brother Juniper's failed proof, the five travelers' distinct lives, and the meaning of care after disaster.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-call-of-the-wild/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-call-of-the-wild/A dialogue on Buck's adaptation, human ownership, affection, and the novel's idea of freedom.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-enchanted-april/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-enchanted-april/A dialogue on beauty, money, friendship, and the limits of a restorative holiday.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-golden-bowl/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-golden-bowl/A dialogue on Maggie's knowledge, the flawed bowl, and the moral cost of preserving two marriages.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-good-soldier/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-good-soldier/A dialogue on Dowell's broken chronology, the Ashburnhams' and Dowells' marriages, and the limits of his claimed innocence.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-great-gatsby/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-great-gatsby/A dialogue on Nick's selective narration, Gatsby's reinvention, and the unequal risks borne by Myrtle and George Wilson.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/A dialogue on evidence, superstition, and the human cost of Holmes's experiment on the moor.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-house-of-mirth/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-house-of-mirth/A dialogue on Lily Bart's social value, money, Selden's judgment, and the limits of a tragic ending.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-jungle/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-jungle/A dialogue on immigrant solidarity, industrial exploitation, and the novel's turn toward socialism.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-magnificent-ambersons/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-magnificent-ambersons/A dialogue on George Amberson Minafer, the automobile, family pride, and a changing city.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-maltese-falcon/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-maltese-falcon/A dialogue on Spade's professional code, Brigid's deception, the Flitcraft parable, and the novel's external narration.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-marrow-of-tradition/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-marrow-of-tradition/A dialogue on white supremacist violence, family recognition, and the unequal demands of mercy.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-old-wives-tale/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-old-wives-tale/A dialogue on the Baines sisters, ordinary labor, aging, and the stories told about a woman's life.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-rainbow/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-rainbow/A dialogue on three Brangwen generations, Ursula's search for work and intimacy, and the ambiguous final rainbow.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-secret-agent/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-secret-agent/A dialogue on Verloc's assignment, Stevie and Winnie's vulnerability, and the rival institutions that turn violence into a tactic.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-sound-and-the-fury/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-sound-and-the-fury/A dialogue on the Compsons' divided narrations, Caddy's absence as a narrator, and Dilsey's care beyond the family's account of decline.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-sun-also-rises/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-sun-also-rises/A dialogue on Jake's guarded narration, Brett's choices, Cohn's treatment, and the gap between ritual and refuge.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-way-of-all-flesh/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-way-of-all-flesh/A dialogue on the Pontifex family's inherited authority, Overton's narration, and the limits of Ernest's escape.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-wings-of-the-dove/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/the-wings-of-the-dove/A dialogue on Kate and Densher's scheme, Milly's illness and agency, and the inheritance that cannot settle their debt.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/to-the-lighthouse/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/to-the-lighthouse/A dialogue on Mrs. Ramsay's dinner, the losses in Time Passes, and Lily Briscoe's unfinished painting.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/ulysses/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/ulysses/A dialogue on Stephen's grief, Bloom's ordinary care, the novel's shifting forms, and Molly's final account of her day.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/winesburg-ohio/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/winesburg-ohio/A dialogue on George Willard as listener, the town's isolated speakers, and the risk of turning lives into lessons about escape.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/women-in-love/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/women-in-love/A dialogue on Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, Birkin and Gerald, power in intimacy, and the novel's final disagreement.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/zuleika-dobson/https://dialogueswithalex.com/public-domain-50/zuleika-dobson/A dialogue on Oxford spectacle, the Duke's vanity, Zuleika's self-image, and the danger of imitation.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-10/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-10/A dialogue on Euripides' divine cruelty and Aristophanes' comic contest over what poetry owes a troubled city.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-09/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-09/A close-reading dialogue on Aeschylus and Sophocles: can a city make justice without erasing the claims of grief, kinship, and truth?Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-08/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-08/A close-reading dialogue on Augustine and Thomas à Kempis: why does knowing what is good fail to make a person do it?Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-07/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-07/A close-reading dialogue on Burns's poems of sympathy, self-knowledge, and rank: how far can feeling challenge unequal power?Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-06/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-06/A close-reading dialogue on Emerson's Self-Reliance and The Over-Soul: how can a person trust inward judgment while remaining answerable to others?Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-05/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-05/A close-reading dialogue on Milton's Paradise Lost: why do the poem's most compelling speeches so often defend choices that diminish freedom?Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-04/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-04/A close-reading dialogue on Bacon, Milton, and Browne: how can a society pursue truth when inquiry depends on institutions, freedom, and the limits of reason?Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-03/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-03/A close-reading dialogue on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius: does Stoic freedom liberate us from fortune, or risk teaching us to accept injustice?Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-02/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-02/A close-reading dialogue on Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo: does Socrates' commitment to justice explain his refusal to escape, or does Plato leave a conflict between conscience and civic obedience unresolved?Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-01/https://dialogueswithalex.com/weeks/week-01/A close-reading dialogue on Franklin's self-making, Woolman's antislavery conscience, and Penn's political ideal: can personal virtue reform institutions built on unequal power?Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT