Humanities

Classic Literature: A Reading Map of the World

Discover canonical books from across cultures and centuries — from Greek tragedy and Sanskrit epic to the Latin American Boom — with the context to know where to start and why each tradition matters.

9 modules

How Canons Work

The hidden machinery behind which books become classics

Ancient Worlds

Greek epic and tragedy, wisdom literature, and the Mediterranean context behind the oldest texts still read today

Asian Literary Civilizations

Rasa, diglossia, and the cosmopolitan imagination before the European novel

Medieval Crossroads

How the world between 600 and 1400 CE produced some of its most daring literature — and why most of it never made the syllabus

The Renaissance and Early Modern Period

How classical texts were recovered, misread, and turned into rules — and who got left out of the story

The Nineteenth-Century Novel

Journals, censorship, and the voices that shaped—and were erased by—the age of realism

Modernisms, Plural

How a rupture with realism became many different ruptures—and why the map of modernist literature is much larger than you've been told

Decolonizing the Novel

How postcolonial writers from Africa, Latin America, and beyond remade world literature

Reading the World

How to find your next book — and understand what shaped every book you have already read

How this plan was made

Each plan on learnings is built by a hand-crafted agentic pipeline: research agents gather primary sources, a claim reviewer verifies facts against them, and a sequencer orders modules for how people actually learn. The curation — topic selection, framing, editorial standards — is Nicolas's. The research and writing is AI-assembled.