Next on the pod, we'll have Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, with George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin following. And we'll be wrapping up this weirdly extended season in the tradition of Better Melville than Dead -- The Confidence-Man.

We're talking linguistic philosophy, the category of the human, and more. We highly recommend lots and lots of Delaney's work, including his novel Nova and his 1999 critical work/memoir, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue on New York’s porn theaters of the 1960s and 70s.

For more on Lewis and his place in the genre, we highly recommend friend of the pod Michael Gamer's Romanticism and the Gothic as well as Angela Wright's chapter on Lewis and Radcliffe in the Cambridge History of the Gothic, Vol. I.

As ever with the gothic, we're talking sex, desire, critiques of patriarchy, and how 18th-century Britons were incapable of being even slightly chill and normal about Catholics.

In a couple weeks, we'll have Matthew Lewis's insane gothic novel The Monk for you. Just in time for Halloween!

We read the 2006 Harper Perennial reprint with Huxley’s intro to the 1958 edition called “Brave New World Revisited.” We consulted Raymond Williams’s “Utopia and Science Fiction” from Science Fiction Studies (1978) and recommend it. We recommend all Raymond Williams.

Babel-7!