Episode 66 - The Kite Runner
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 66
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Episode description
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal.
This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-sixth episode, we examine Khaled Hosseini's 2003 redemption-and-brotherhood melodrama, The Kite Runner. In this episode, Daniel feels seen, gives a shout out to his friends in the Taliban, and tells us what he'd do if ever gifted a copy of Hitler's biography. Abby, meanwhile, becomes the angriest she's been since the Pamela episode.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
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Episode Theme: Ustad Gada Mohammad, 'Rababa'.
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