Ranked #1
4.5 Immortality
4.5 Immortality
Here, in the conclusion of our five-episode season on The Hall of the Monkey King, you’ll hear about Journey to the West... Read more
4 Jul 2023
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27mins
Ranked #2
4.4 Cinematic Transcendence
4.4 Cinematic Transcendence
You can encounter Journey to the West in film, on television, in comic books—it’s a sixteenth-century novel that lives c... Read more
27 Jun 2023
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20mins
Ranked #3
4.3 The Flawed Mind Monkey
4.3 The Flawed Mind Monkey
You might, for good reason, not associate restless irreverence with religious engagement. But in Journey to the West, th... Read more
20 Jun 2023
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28mins
Ranked #4
4.2 Lawful Chaos
4.2 Lawful Chaos
Different belief systems—and just differences in general—collide and merge in Journey to the West, the classic Chinese n... Read more
13 Jun 2023
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28mins
Ranked #5
4.1 Introduction
4.1 Introduction
The Cosmic Library is back, with a five-episode season on Journey to the West, the classic 16th-century Chinese novel of... Read more
6 Jun 2023
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21mins
Ranked #6
Season 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey King
Season 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey King
The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—bo... Read more
25 May 2023
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2mins
Ranked #7
3.5 You Take It from Here
3.5 You Take It from Here
It's not just the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible that puzzle and provoke readers—there are, throughout, passages of ... Read more
10 May 2022
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23mins
Ranked #8
3.4 Struggling with Disaster
3.4 Struggling with Disaster
From the book of Genesis on, the Hebrew Bible presents a struggle with language: a struggle to establish meaning, to fig... Read more
3 May 2022
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22mins
Ranked #9
3.3 Dream Interpretation
3.3 Dream Interpretation
Stuck in a lonely motel room, you have a good chance of finding a Bible, left for anyone similarly stuck in a strange in... Read more
26 Apr 2022
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32mins
Ranked #10
3.2 Laws of Emotion
3.2 Laws of Emotion
“We regulate each other’s nervous systems,” says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of “Mosaic Mosa... Read more
19 Apr 2022
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41mins