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The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three, titled Mosaic Mosaic and premiering on April 11, journeys through and beyond the Hebrew Bible.


On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman
July 6, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman
June 27, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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Spiritual Clarity and Satirical Play: On the Monkey King as Allegory

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman
June 21, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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On the Lawful Chaos of Journey to the West

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman
June 13, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman
June 6, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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Welcome to Season 4 of The Cosmic Library

This Season, Meet Journey to the West’s Monkey King
May 30, 2023  By The Cosmic Library 
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The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
May 10, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
May 3, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
April 26, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
April 19, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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How the Hebrew Bible Poses Fundamental Questions About Language

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
April 12, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

Join Us For a Journey Through and Beyond the Hebrew Bible
April 6, 2022  By The Cosmic Library 
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How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

Part Five of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”
December 7, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

Part Four of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”
November 30, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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Formulaic Surprises: How 1,001 Nights Startles with Sameness

Part Three of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”
November 23, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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Jim Al-Khalili on the Science of 1,001 Nights

Part Two of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”
November 16, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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How 1,001 Nights Opened Paths to Infinite Story Possibility

Introducing a New Five-Part Series from The Cosmic Library
November 9, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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Reading Finnegans Wake Musically Might Help Make Sense of It

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written
April 29, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written
April 22, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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On the Watery Language of Finnegans Wake

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written
April 15, 2021  By The Cosmic Library 
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