In the season's penultimate episode, W5H breaks down one of Leo Tolstoy's shorter works, The Death of Ivan Illych and ponders the meaning of death, as well as life ..read more

W5H reads their first novel by a woman, the original rom-com novel. Is it possible for two 21st century Asian guys to appreciate Jane Austen? Well, at least we tried ..read more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel is considered by many to be the defining work of Latin American literature. Beautiful, magical, and just plain weird, join us as we take a look at this 20th century magic carpet ride of a novel ..read more

W5H takes a look at the British colonial experience in India through the lens of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. The novel looks at pre-partition India and the tinder box of different ethnicities and cultures that threatened to light at any moment. Race, identity politics, and who should be telling the story of the oppressed ..read more

The W5H team dives back into the 21st century as they discuss Ernest Hemingway's post WW1 classic, the Sun Also Rises ..read more

Luki and Dave convene to discuss the classic, original anti-establishment, minimalist, naturalist, environmentalist manifesto. Henry David Thoreau spent a few years living out in the wilderness at Walden Pond, and penned one of the most highly thought of American works of naturalism. But is it truly a great read, or just the ramblings of a crank ..read more

W5H reviews one of the landmark works of western literature, the original gangster of all epic action movies, the Iliad by Homer. Was it a dud, or is it really deserving of the title of one of the greatest literary works of all time ..read more

This week, Luki and Dave dig into the recesses of their high school curriculum and plow through a classic they've never read before. Should they have just left well enough alone? Stay tuned ..read more

Season 2 of W5H kicks off and we are venturing into literary fiction for the first time with a reading of the classic allegory Animal Farm ..read more

Luki and Dave discuss John Taylor Gatto's angry polemic "Weapons of Mass Instruction" and his theory that schools exist to help propagate an elite class that profits off the students that it trains to become consumption-happy conformists. In the process, he argues that many impressive people did not require formal education, challenges the orthodoxy of sending our kids to school, and invites us to consider "unschooling" or letting our children explore the world on foot. Do we agree with his theories? What should we do with these ideas as parents and educators?  This is the 1st in a series ..read more