Paradiso
Poem by Dante AlighieriWikipedia
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Sep 29, 2026
Jesse MulliganHOST
UXO by Brennavin Nangalingam.
Jesse MulliganHOST
Anna Rankin is our book critic, and she has also been reading, let me scroll down, Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lilith Asidi.
Anna RankinGUEST
Yeah, so this is her third novel.
Anna RankinGUEST
She is a Palestinian-American novelist, and this is an explicit reckoning with her late father's life, who, like the novel's protagonist, Sufian, was a Palestinian who, together with his family, were expelled from their land during the Nakapara in 1948.
Anna RankinGUEST
And the title is drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy, which, as I'm sure you know, chronicles the author's journey through the afterlife.
Anna RankinGUEST
to Inferno, a purgatory in paradise.
Anna RankinGUEST
In A Paradiso, Canto XVII, one of Dante's ancestors prophesies Dante's impending political exile from Florence and the hardships that he will endure.
Anna RankinGUEST
So the novel draws upon this idea in two ways.
Harrison GarlickHOST
It's going to be a beautiful, difficult, but rewarding journey of reading Plato's Republic for almost over a year.
Harrison GarlickHOST
We start next week in october and we don't finish until august 2027 the entire schedule is posted on the ascend book club website so go check it out that includes however a few breaks a few topical breaks uh some one-off episodes we're gonna have a christmas episode and it also includes taking off all of lent So for Lent 2027, we're going to read Dante's Paradiso.
Harrison GarlickHOST
And I'm very close to announcing something really big for that.
Harrison GarlickHOST
So that's going to be exciting.
Harrison GarlickHOST
So we'll take a break, read Dante's Paradiso because we've already read Purgatorio and Inferno on the podcast.
Harrison GarlickHOST
All of those resources are posted if you want to go back and read those.
Harrison GarlickHOST
So after our Lenten break, we take back up the Republic and we finish it.
Jason BaxterGUEST
Thanks a lot.
Jason BaxterGUEST
So the bad news is, I'm not entirely sure that 8.15 is the best possible time to give a lecture on the contemplative depths of Dante's Paradiso.
Jason BaxterGUEST
It's like an evening thing.
Jason BaxterGUEST
And yet, if it's not ideal, you have to blame American Airlines.
Jason BaxterGUEST
I would have called it the afterlife trilogy.
Jason BaxterGUEST
And I know that we could have at least boosted that by 17% sales, right? So the most difficult Part of the afterlife trilogy of the comedy, of course, is the third part, what Dante calls a canticle.
Jason BaxterGUEST
The third canticle of Paradiso, right? About heaven.
Jason BaxterGUEST
We can talk about why it's so difficult.