Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase

James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of his New York Times best-selling book The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase is an episode from Little Atoms by Neil Denny.

This episode is 33:00 long.

This episode was published on Feb 20, 2026.

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