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Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Jun 9 • 41m
Surindar Nath Pandita, "डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote" (Pune, 2024)
Jun 9 • 52m
Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
Jun 8 • 53m
152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
Jun 7 • 44m
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
Jun 7 • 58m
Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jun 6 • 1h 7m
151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
Jun 5 • 32m
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
Jun 2 • 1h 6m
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
Jun 2 • 53m
Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
Jun 1 • 34m
Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 31 • 47m
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
May 30 • 1h 5m
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
May 28 • 49m
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27 • 35m
Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 25 • 1h 11m
Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
May 24 • 50m
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 23 • 53m
Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
May 22 • 50m
Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
May 21 • 49m
Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
May 20 • 1h 17m
Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
May 19 • 49m
Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 18 • 46m
Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
May 17 • 30m
James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 16 • 1h 18m
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
May 15 • 29m
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
May 14 • 59m
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
May 13 • 55m
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 11 • 58m
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
May 10 • 42m
“That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
May 9 • 54m
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 8 • 1h 5m
Nothingism
May 6 • 20m
Robin Miles: Talking Books
May 5 • 1h 14m
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
May 4 • 47m
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
May 2 • 58m
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 30 • 1h 6m
Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
Apr 29 • 38m
Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 27 • 54m
Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
Apr 26 • 1h 16m
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Apr 24 • 50m
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
Apr 23 • 1h 9m
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Apr 23 • 46m
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 22 • 1h 21m
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
Apr 20 • 46m
Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
Apr 18 • 1h 44m
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 16 • 1h 1m
Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
Apr 14 • 51m
Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
Apr 13 • 48m
Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 12 • 53m
The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
Apr 11 • 1h 47m
9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper
Apr 10 • 49m
Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
Apr 10 • 1h 1m
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 8 • 1h 16m
Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
Apr 7 • 1h 2m
Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
Apr 6 • 30m
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Apr 5 • 1h 4m
Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 4 • 41m
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 2 • 58m
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
Apr 2 • 1h 8m
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
Apr 1 • 54m
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Mar 31 • 51m
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Mar 30 • 56m
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 29 • 54m
9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW)
Mar 27 • 48m
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 27 • 1h 9m
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 26 • 1h 6m
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 25 • 32m
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Mar 24 • 51m
Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
Mar 23 • 24m
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Mar 22 • 41m
Writing Against the System
Mar 21 • 34m
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Mar 20 • 1h 36m
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 19 • 56m
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 18 • 50m
Action Without Hope
Mar 17 • 21m
Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 16 • 1h 27m
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Mar 15 • 1h 4m
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 14 • 38m
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Mar 13 • 52m
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 12 • 53m
Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
Mar 12 • 1h 34m
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 11 • 1h 15m
Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 9 • 1h 8m
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 8 • 42m
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
Mar 7 • 47m
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Mar 5 • 59m
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
Mar 5 • 1h 0m
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
Mar 4 • 1h 0m
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Mar 3 • 33m
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 28 • 52m
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Feb 28 • 1h 11m
Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Feb 26 • 1h 11m
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
Feb 26 • 1h 32m
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 24 • 1h 8m
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 22 • 1h 18m
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Feb 22 • 1h 3m
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Feb 22 • 1h 30m
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
Feb 22 • 57m
Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Feb 21 • 55m
Poetry
Feb 20 • 22m
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Feb 19 • 1h 3m
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
Feb 19 • 55m
Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 19 • 1h 11m
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
Feb 17 • 1h 24m
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
Feb 16 • 54m
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 16 • 26m
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 14 • 1h 1m
Failed Passing
Feb 12 • 19m
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Feb 9 • 1h 12m
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Feb 9 • 49m
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 8 • 1h 52m
Andrew Campana, "Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 6 • 1h 2m
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
Feb 4 • 51m
D. C. Helmuth, "Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories" (Lonely Planet, 2024)
Feb 4 • 41m
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
Feb 3 • 38m
Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Feb 2 • 38m
Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 1 • 47m
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Jan 30 • 1h 6m
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
Jan 30 • 50m
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 29 • 1h 12m
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
Jan 25 • 30m
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Jan 24 • 1h 12m
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Jan 23 • 1h 10m
David Mckinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study" (Routledge, 2025)
Jan 23 • 1h 0m
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
Jan 23 • 54m
Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
Jan 22 • 42m
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 20 • 1h 13m
Melanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
Jan 19 • 52m
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 18 • 59m
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
Jan 17 • 1h 40m
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 16 • 53m
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
Jan 16 • 44m
Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
Jan 14 • 1h 12m
Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
Jan 13 • 52m
Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Jan 13 • 54m
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
Jan 9 • 47m
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
Jan 8 • 50m
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 7 • 58m
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Jan 6 • 56m
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 3 • 1h 7m
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 2 • 1h 12m
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
Jan 2 • 1h 2m
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
Dec 31, 2024 • 38m
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 • 56m
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 • 45m
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 30m
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 6m
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024 • 54m
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024 • 56m
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 19m
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Dec 26, 2024 • 55m
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024 • 41m
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 50m
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 9m
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 18m
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 6m
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 11m
Booksellers’ Best 2024
Dec 20, 2024 • 49m
Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 20, 2024 • 54m
“I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”
Dec 19, 2024 • 52m
Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 12m
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 41m
Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
Dec 15, 2024 • 36m
Angela Kim Harkins, "Reading with an "I" to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Dec 13, 2024 • 1h 4m
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024 • 1h 6m
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 2m
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 9m
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 26m
Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 8, 2024 • 47m
Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 6, 2024 • 54m
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Dec 5, 2024 • 56m
Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 5m
And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
Dec 5, 2024 • 53m
Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
Dec 4, 2024 • 54m
Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
Dec 3, 2024 • 34m
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"
Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 13m
Keith Gandal, "Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis While Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Dec 1, 2024 • 42m
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 8m
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 7m
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 23m
Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 • 48m
Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 31m
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2024 • 52m
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024 • 47m
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 27m
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 22, 2024 • 25m
All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV)
Nov 21, 2024 • 44m
Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 • 31m
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
Nov 20, 2024 • 39m
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 17, 2024 • 1h 4m
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 58m
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024 • 1h 0m
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024 • 44m
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Nov 13, 2024 • 50m
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 59m
Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 41m
Non-literary Fiction
Nov 9, 2024 • 14m
Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
Nov 8, 2024 • 32m
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 7, 2024 • 53m
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 7, 2024 • 38m
8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
Nov 7, 2024 • 30m
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 51m
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 13m
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 53m
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Nov 2, 2024 • 32m
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Nov 2, 2024 • 33m
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 1h 16m
Ghosts In Our Fields
Nov 1, 2024 • 28m
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 45m
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2024 • 49m
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024 • 32m
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 24m
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024 • 55m
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 37m
Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 49m
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024 • 46m
To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)
Oct 25, 2024 • 48m
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024 • 47m
Benjamin Bergholtz, "Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Oct 21, 2024 • 52m
Sonja Stojanovic, "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2024 • 1h 6m
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 56m
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 42m
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 • 35m
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Oct 17, 2024 • 29m
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Oct 16, 2024 • 41m
P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
Oct 14, 2024 • 29m
V. Domontovych, "On Shaky Ground" (CEU Press, 2024)
Oct 14, 2024 • 28m
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 1m
Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024 • 39m
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024 • 1h 18m
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 11, 2024 • 55m
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 11, 2024 • 1h 13m
Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)
Oct 10, 2024 • 48m
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 6m
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 6, 2024 • 52m
Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
Oct 4, 2024 • 54m
Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City Montana" (JP)
Oct 3, 2024 • 48m
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Oct 3, 2024 • 59m
Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Oct 2, 2024 • 44m
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 13m
Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024 • 55m
Jennifer Mooney, "Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 28, 2024 • 59m
Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 47m
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 45m
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
Sep 23, 2024 • 40m
Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 22m
Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 2m
Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
Sep 19, 2024 • 44m
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024 • 55m
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 10m
Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 0m
Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024 • 58m
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
Sep 12, 2024 • 33m
Before and After the Book Deal
Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 2m
Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
Sep 12, 2024 • 18m
Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024 • 55m
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 9, 2024 • 54m
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 7, 2024 • 44m
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
Sep 6, 2024 • 1h 0m
Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
Sep 5, 2024 • 1h 5m
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
Sep 4, 2024 • 35m
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 4, 2024 • 46m
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 3, 2024 • 54m
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 1m
Beth Driscoll, "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024 • 40m
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024 • 56m
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 28, 2024 • 1h 8m
Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024)
Aug 27, 2024 • 26m
Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 13m
Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 4m
Literatures beyond the West
Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 20m
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Aug 21, 2024 • 57m
Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 9m
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 4m
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 14, 2024 • 53m
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
Aug 14, 2024 • 55m
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 13, 2024 • 43m
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 10m
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024 • 50m
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024 • 46m
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024 • 39m
Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 6m
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 1m
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 1m
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 0m
Goth Diss
Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 1m
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 5, 2024 • 59m
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Aug 3, 2024 • 46m
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 10m
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 3m
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 55m
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Aug 2, 2024 • 37m
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 4m
Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 • 30m
Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 50m
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 12m
Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 52m
Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 16m
Muslimness in Books for Young Readers: A Chat with A. M. Dassu
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 0m
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 0m
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 4m
Miguel Escobar Varela, "Theater as Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Jul 24, 2024 • 36m
Hannan Hever, "Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 48m
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 4m
Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 23, 2024 • 50m
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 1m
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024 • 58m
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024 • 54m
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 7m
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 57m
Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 3m
Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers
Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 14m
Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Jul 16, 2024 • 54m
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 15m
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Jul 14, 2024 • 57m
Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 8m
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024 • 39m
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 12m
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 50m
Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 9, 2024 • 58m
Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 6m
Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman, "Law and Humanities" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 40m
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
Jul 5, 2024 • 24m
Aaron Sherraden, "Śambūka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaṇa Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Jul 4, 2024 • 35m
Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)
Jul 4, 2024 • 40m
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024 • 53m
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 28, 2024 • 57m
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 6m
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jun 28, 2024 • 39m
Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)
Jun 27, 2024 • 39m
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 52m
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 47m
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jun 22, 2024 • 49m
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
Jun 22, 2024 • 42m
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 4m
Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 3m
Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Jun 20, 2024 • 35m
Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH)
Jun 20, 2024 • 50m
Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 37m
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 51m
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 3m
Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 1m
Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)
Jun 6, 2024 • 50m
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Jun 4, 2024 • 52m
Benjamin Balint, "Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy" (Norton, 2019)
Jun 3, 2024 • 41m
Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024)
Jun 1, 2024 • 30m
Robert Cochran, "Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis" (U Arkansas Press, 2024)
Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 14m
Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
May 31, 2024 • 55m
Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 30, 2024 • 43m
Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
May 29, 2024 • 36m
Aakriti Mandhwani, "Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
May 29, 2024 • 54m
Rebecca Copeland, "Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
May 29, 2024 • 44m
Edwin McRae, "Narrative Worldbuilding: A Player Centric Approach to Designing Story Rich Game Worlds" (Narrative, 2024)
May 28, 2024 • 28m
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2024 • 1h 5m
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
May 28, 2024 • 52m
Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 26, 2024 • 1h 13m
Jan Baetens, "Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
May 26, 2024 • 59m
Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)
May 26, 2024 • 1h 10m
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
May 24, 2024 • 1h 1m
Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
May 24, 2024 • 53m
Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
May 23, 2024 • 1h 5m
Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 22, 2024 • 55m
Jeremy Black, "In Fielding's Wake" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
May 21, 2024 • 46m
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 21, 2024 • 32m
Nuzhat Abbas, "River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation" (Trace Press, 2023)
May 18, 2024 • 31m
Shakespeare in America
May 18, 2024 • 56m
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024 • 1h 5m
Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)
May 16, 2024 • 48m
"Orion" Magazine: A Discussion with Sumanth Prabhaker
May 15, 2024 • 34m
Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 14, 2024 • 44m
Inhuman
May 14, 2024 • 20m
Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 14, 2024 • 42m
Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 13, 2024 • 1h 0m
Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 13, 2024 • 52m
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
May 13, 2024 • 46m
Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
May 12, 2024 • 40m
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
May 11, 2024 • 56m
B. J. Woodstein, "Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator" (Anthem Press, 2024)
May 10, 2024 • 50m
Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
May 10, 2024 • 1h 10m
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
May 9, 2024 • 45m
Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (JP)
May 9, 2024 • 1h 13m
What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)
May 9, 2024 • 47m
Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, "(Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games" (de Gruyter, 2023)
May 8, 2024 • 25m
Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
May 7, 2024 • 48m
Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
May 7, 2024 • 44m
Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
May 7, 2024 • 35m
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5, 2024 • 1h 3m
Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
May 3, 2024 • 26m
Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)
May 2, 2024 • 50m
Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 2, 2024 • 1h 8m
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 1, 2024 • 40m
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024 • 57m
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024 • 48m
Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 30, 2024 • 42m
Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024 • 37m
Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
Apr 28, 2024 • 50m
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024 • 1h 1m
Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024 • 55m
You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
Apr 25, 2024 • 58m
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2024 • 48m
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 23, 2024 • 36m
Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Apr 20, 2024 • 50m
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 18, 2024 • 1h 11m
Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 18, 2024 • 1h 43m
Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
Apr 18, 2024 • 41m
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024 • 36m
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024 • 29m
Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022)
Apr 16, 2024 • 42m
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 3m
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
Apr 14, 2024 • 39m
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 0m
Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP)
Apr 11, 2024 • 41m
Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 11, 2024 • 35m
Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Apr 11, 2024 • 39m
"The American Scholar" Magazine: A Discussion with Stephanie Bastek
Apr 11, 2024 • 26m
Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Apr 10, 2024 • 57m
Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 0m
Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 9, 2024 • 49m
Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 9, 2024 • 42m
Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Apr 8, 2024 • 55m
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Apr 8, 2024 • 54m
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Apr 8, 2024 • 40m
Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Apr 7, 2024 • 40m
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 4, 2024 • 38m
E. G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
Apr 4, 2024 • 37m
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 21m
Alessandro Columbu, "Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024 • 55m
Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 20m
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024 • 36m
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 3m
Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 25, 2024 • 37m
Melodrama
Mar 25, 2024 • 22m
Tim Lanzendörfer, "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 24, 2024 • 41m
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
Mar 21, 2024 • 32m
David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
Mar 21, 2024 • 45m
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024 • 41m
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Mar 19, 2024 • 50m
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 3m
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
Mar 17, 2024 • 48m
Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat, "Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2024 • 50m
Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 54m
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 1m
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 14m
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 2m
Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024 • 44m
Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024 • 53m
Jad Adams, "Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024 • 36m
Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Mar 9, 2024 • 41m
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 8, 2024 • 47m
AGNI magazine: A Discussion with Sven Birkerts
Mar 7, 2024 • 30m
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Mar 6, 2024 • 52m
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 31m
Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 5, 2024 • 54m
Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
Mar 5, 2024 • 35m
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 4, 2024 • 59m
Close Reading
Mar 2, 2024 • 15m
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 1, 2024 • 1h 29m
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Mar 1, 2024 • 28m
Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 31m
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024 • 36m
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 43m
Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 5m
Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 7m
Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 3m
Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Feb 20, 2024 • 52m
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 19m
Sheila Heti Speaks About Awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
Feb 16, 2024 • 43m
Criticism
Feb 15, 2024 • 21m
Cheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024 • 1h 8m
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024 • 33m
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024 • 44m
"The New England Review" magazine: A Discussion with Elizabeth Kadetsky
Feb 8, 2024 • 28m
Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 7, 2024 • 29m
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 9m
Refqa Abu-Remaileh, "Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 20m
Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 6m
"Fourth Genre" Magazine: A Chat with Patrick Madden and Joey Franklin
Feb 1, 2024 • 24m
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 1, 2024 • 50m
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024 • 39m
Francesca Orsini, "East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 11m
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2024 • 1h 3m
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 1h 4m
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024 • 35m
Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024 • 56m
"The Sun" Magazine: A Chat with Derek Askey
Jan 25, 2024 • 24m
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024 • 53m
"Solstice" Magazine: A Discussion with Richard Hoffman
Jan 24, 2024 • 29m
Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 40m
Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
Jan 23, 2024 • 25m
"n+1" Magazine: A Discussion with Dayna Tortorici
Jan 22, 2024 • 24m
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 40m
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 49m
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 0m
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024 • 1h 4m
Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 20, 2024 • 58m
Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 29m
Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 48m
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 56m
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024 • 1h 23m
Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024 • 35m
Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 56m
Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
Jan 12, 2024 • 47m
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024 • 57m
Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024 • 40m
Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 4m
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 0m
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Jan 5, 2024 • 35m
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Jan 4, 2024 • 46m
Plot
Jan 4, 2024 • 18m
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Jan 3, 2024 • 39m
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 15m
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
Dec 31, 2023 • 41m
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
Dec 30, 2023 • 42m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Dec 29, 2023 • 44m
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023 • 37m
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Dec 28, 2023 • 39m
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Dec 28, 2023 • 59m
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Dec 25, 2023 • 53m
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 1h 19m
Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 47m
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 36m
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 2m
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023 • 40m
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Dec 22, 2023 • 33m
Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023 • 35m
Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 20, 2023 • 31m
Saving the Brontë Birthplace
Dec 19, 2023 • 30m
Jonathan Kramnick, "Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023 • 47m
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023 • 49m
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 3m
Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 12m
Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023 • 46m
Boria Sax, "Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023 • 53m
Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
Dec 14, 2023 • 44m
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023 • 32m
Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 35m
Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 7m
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 4, 2023 • 51m
Book Chat: Eco-translation from Taiwan and Wu Ming-yi’s The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記, with Darryl Sterk
Dec 2, 2023 • 32m
Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 46m
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 50m
Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)
Nov 30, 2023 • 48m
Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 4m
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023 • 59m
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023 • 57m
Plagiarism
Nov 28, 2023 • 20m
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 42m
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 25, 2023 • 59m
Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 45m
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 42m
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023 • 38m
Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)
Nov 21, 2023 • 59m
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 3
Nov 20, 2023 • 30m
Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023 • 49m
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
Nov 18, 2023 • 43m
Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 4m
Bahriye Kemal, "Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 16, 2023 • 1h 32m
“We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”
Nov 16, 2023 • 46m
Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 15, 2023 • 43m
Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 20m
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2
Nov 13, 2023 • 25m
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 54m
Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 47m
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023 • 45m
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023 • 31m
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023 • 1h 21m
Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives
Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 22m
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1
Nov 6, 2023 • 20m
Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 4, 2023 • 57m
Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 2m
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 4, 2023 • 58m
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Nov 4, 2023 • 29m
Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)
Nov 2, 2023 • 41m
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Nov 2, 2023 • 52m
Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 40m
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 17m
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023 • 57m
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 3: The Language
Oct 30, 2023 • 27m
Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 14m
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Oct 29, 2023 • 53m
Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 12m
James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 10m
Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 13m
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 15m
Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023 • 58m
Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Oct 26, 2023 • 35m
Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023 • 52m
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2023 • 36m
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Oct 23, 2023 • 22m
David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023 • 51m
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 17m
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 55m
What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
Oct 19, 2023 • 39m
Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
Oct 19, 2023 • 39m
Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 37m
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 47m
Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 39m
Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023 • 1h 4m
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 1: The Story
Oct 16, 2023 • 22m
Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023 • 45m
Txt
Oct 13, 2023 • 19m
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 7m
Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Oct 11, 2023 • 48m
Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 3: The Language
Oct 9, 2023 • 30m
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Oct 8, 2023 • 54m
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 7, 2023 • 52m
Books in Early Modern Europe
Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 3m
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 6, 2023 • 56m
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 6m
John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
Oct 5, 2023 • 41m
Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)
Oct 5, 2023 • 41m
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
Oct 4, 2023 • 2h 18m
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
Oct 3, 2023 • 51m
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Oct 2, 2023 • 21m
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
Oct 1, 2023 • 44m
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023 • 44m
Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2023 • 50m
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 27, 2023 • 48m
Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 5m
Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 31m
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 57m
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 56m
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
Sep 25, 2023 • 23m
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 25, 2023 • 41m
The Secret History of the Mongols
Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 2m
Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023 • 45m
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2023 • 56m
Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 • 34m
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023 • 52m
Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
Sep 21, 2023 • 24m
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2023 • 35m
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
Sep 18, 2023 • 34m
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023 • 56m
Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 9m
Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 0m
Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 14m
Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023 • 1h 21m
Dženita Karić, "Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2023 • 59m
Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 15, 2023 • 51m
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2023 • 47m
Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 11m
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 2m
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 8m
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Sep 11, 2023 • 24m
Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 10, 2023 • 54m
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023 • 1h 5m
L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Sep 9, 2023 • 59m
Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
Sep 7, 2023 • 50m
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 22m
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 54m
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 1: The Story
Sep 4, 2023 • 23m
On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"
Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 0m
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Sep 2, 2023 • 55m
Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
Sep 2, 2023 • 48m
Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 36m
Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 16m
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 3: The Language
Aug 28, 2023 • 27m
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 9m
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 50m
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 48m
Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Aug 26, 2023 • 1h 34m
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023 • 56m
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 31m
Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 41m
On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia
Aug 24, 2023 • 54m
Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
Aug 22, 2023 • 42m
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Aug 21, 2023 • 24m
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Aug 20, 2023 • 49m
Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023 • 57m
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023 • 1h 47m
Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond (JP)
Aug 17, 2023 • 28m
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 26m
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Aug 16, 2023 • 52m
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 15, 2023 • 50m
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Aug 14, 2023 • 22m
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 1: The Story
Aug 14, 2023 • 22m
Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)
Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 53m
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023 • 53m
Book Chat: Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-yi
Aug 13, 2023 • 31m
Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Aug 12, 2023 • 48m
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 18m
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Aug 11, 2023 • 34m
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 8, 2023 • 54m
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
Aug 7, 2023 • 30m
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 52m
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Aug 4, 2023 • 14m
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Aug 3, 2023 • 48m
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Aug 1, 2023 • 46m
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Jul 31, 2023 • 26m
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
Jul 31, 2023 • 52m
Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2023 • 57m
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 57m
Raquel Gutiérrez, "Brown Neon" (Coffee House Press, 2022)
Jul 28, 2023 • 42m
Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Jul 27, 2023 • 47m
Héctor Tobar, "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'" (MCD, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 47m
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Alejandro Varela, "The Town of Babylon" (Astra, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023 • 43m
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 1: The Story
Jul 24, 2023 • 23m
Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023 • 33m
Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)
Jul 23, 2023 • 55m
Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 34m
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
Jul 22, 2023 • 33m
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 15m
Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
Jul 20, 2023 • 39m
Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
Jul 20, 2023 • 45m
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023 • 58m
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
Jul 17, 2023 • 40m
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023 • 1h 20m
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 16, 2023 • 44m
Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023 • 55m
Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 11m
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 5m
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
Jul 11, 2023 • 52m
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023 • 53m
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Jul 10, 2023 • 24m
Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 13m
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 9, 2023 • 53m
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 8, 2023 • 46m
Mateusz Świetlicki, "Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 7, 2023 • 47m
Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)
Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 3m
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 38m
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 11m
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 43m
Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 3, 2023 • 50m
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
Jul 3, 2023 • 22m
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 31m
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Jun 30, 2023 • 19m
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
Jun 29, 2023 • 17m
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023 • 42m
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
Jun 26, 2023 • 28m
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 27m
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Jun 25, 2023 • 47m
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023 • 53m
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 13m
The Environmental Unconscious
Jun 20, 2023 • 21m
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions
Jun 19, 2023 • 20m
Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Jun 18, 2023 • 50m
The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
Jun 18, 2023 • 48m
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2023 • 36m
Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023 • 45m
Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 8m
A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)
Jun 15, 2023 • 43m
Mark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023 • 32m
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023 • 33m
The Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)
Jun 15, 2023 • 47m
Masood Ashraf Raja, "Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred" (Lever Press, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023 • 21m
D. J. Taylor, "Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews, 2010-2022" (Shoestring Press, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023 • 34m
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 12, 2023 • 39m
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 1: The Story
Jun 12, 2023 • 19m
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 11, 2023 • 54m
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023 • 56m
Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 • 51m
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023 • 37m
Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
Jun 9, 2023 • 54m
Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 9, 2023 • 42m
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 8, 2023 • 50m
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
Jun 6, 2023 • 55m
Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Jun 5, 2023 • 35m
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
Jun 5, 2023 • 31m
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera
Jun 1, 2023 • 56m
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
May 31, 2023 • 58m
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)
May 30, 2023 • 38m
Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 30, 2023 • 1h 8m
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions
May 29, 2023 • 22m
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 26, 2023 • 58m
Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)
May 26, 2023 • 58m
Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
May 26, 2023 • 43m
Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
May 25, 2023 • 39m
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
May 25, 2023 • 40m
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May 24, 2023 • 17m
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story
May 22, 2023 • 22m
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
May 22, 2023 • 44m
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023 • 58m
Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)
May 20, 2023 • 31m
Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
May 20, 2023 • 1h 18m
Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
May 19, 2023 • 37m
Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 18, 2023 • 49m
David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
May 18, 2023 • 21m
5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life
May 18, 2023 • 48m
The Meat and Bones of Life
May 18, 2023 • 48m
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023 • 46m
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
May 16, 2023 • 56m
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language
May 15, 2023 • 36m
Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
May 14, 2023 • 56m
Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
May 13, 2023 • 58m
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
May 11, 2023 • 36m
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 11, 2023 • 1h 0m
Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
May 11, 2023 • 55m
Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
May 10, 2023 • 1h 0m
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
May 10, 2023 • 46m
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
May 10, 2023 • 34m
Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
May 10, 2023 • 45m
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 2: Characters and Questions
May 8, 2023 • 20m
Jack Parlett, "Fire Island" (Hanover Square Press, 2022)
May 7, 2023 • 1h 9m
Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
May 6, 2023 • 49m
Semiotext(e): The Theory Press
May 5, 2023 • 46m
5.3 “It’s on the Illabus”
May 4, 2023 • 45m
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
May 4, 2023 • 1h 2m
Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
May 3, 2023 • 56m
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
May 3, 2023 • 47m
Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 3, 2023 • 1h 11m
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 1: The Story
May 1, 2023 • 21m
Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
May 1, 2023 • 1h 18m
Katherine Gillen et al., "The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera" (ACMRS, 2023)
Apr 30, 2023 • 49m
Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
Apr 29, 2023 • 51m
Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023 • 44m
Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)
Apr 28, 2023 • 33m
Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
Apr 27, 2023 • 1h 13m
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 3: the Language
Apr 24, 2023 • 23m
Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023 • 51m
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2023 • 47m
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 22, 2023 • 52m
Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
Apr 21, 2023 • 47m
Reading
Apr 20, 2023 • 22m
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023 • 47m
Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
Apr 20, 2023 • 30m
Elena Pedigo Clark, "Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 0m
Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 18, 2023 • 1h 35m
Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 23m
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Apr 17, 2023 • 21m
Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023 • 1h 16m
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2023 • 59m
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023 • 56m
Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 6m
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
Apr 10, 2023 • 20m
Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023 • 57m
Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
Apr 9, 2023 • 49m
Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 8, 2023 • 44m
Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 7, 2023 • 58m
5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all!
Apr 6, 2023 • 54m
Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form
Apr 6, 2023 • 43m
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
Apr 6, 2023 • 1h 3m
Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
Apr 6, 2023 • 47m
Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)
Apr 6, 2023 • 59m
Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
Apr 5, 2023 • 45m
Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Apr 5, 2023 • 1h 4m
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 17m
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 3: the Language
Apr 3, 2023 • 20m
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 2, 2023 • 44m
Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Apr 2, 2023 • 35m
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 52m
Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, "Dindshenchas Érenn" (U College Cork, 2022)
Mar 29, 2023 • 52m
Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)
Mar 28, 2023 • 23m
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Mar 27, 2023 • 20m
Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)
Mar 26, 2023 • 1h 6m
Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
Mar 26, 2023 • 1h 1m
ACLA 2023
Mar 23, 2023 • 17m
Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023 • 38m
Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 0m
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 1: the Story
Mar 20, 2023 • 20m
Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023 • 50m
Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023 • 26m
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 9m
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 1m
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 46m
Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2023 • 31m
Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023 • 59m
Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)
Mar 16, 2023 • 34m
Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2023 • 27m
Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2023 • 54m
Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of "The Catcher in the Rye"
Mar 13, 2023 • 33m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
Mar 13, 2023 • 38m
Book Chat: Comics in Taiwan
Mar 13, 2023 • 42m
Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
Mar 12, 2023 • 34m
Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 12, 2023 • 2h 5m
Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023 • 47m
Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023 • 54m
Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023 • 45m
T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 9, 2023 • 38m
Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
Mar 9, 2023 • 53m
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
Mar 7, 2023 • 16m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
Mar 6, 2023 • 32m
The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke
Mar 6, 2023 • 39m
On Chaim Grade’s "The Yeshiva"
Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 1m
Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 4, 2023 • 1h 1m
Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023 • 55m
Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
Mar 3, 2023 • 50m
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 18m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
Feb 27, 2023 • 29m
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 21m
Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023 • 51m
Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li, "Taiwanese Literature as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 20m
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 3m
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 3: the Language
Feb 20, 2023 • 40m
Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Feb 18, 2023 • 54m
Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Feb 17, 2023 • 55m
Freddy Prestol Castillo, "You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot" (Duke UP, 2019)
Feb 17, 2023 • 37m
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023 • 25m
Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 16, 2023 • 49m
Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023 • 55m
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Feb 15, 2023 • 43m
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023 • 55m
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 53m
Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
Feb 13, 2023 • 33m
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Feb 13, 2023 • 25m
Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Feb 12, 2023 • 51m
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 51m
James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 5m
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 42m
Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023 • 57m
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 12m
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 21m
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Feb 6, 2023 • 40m
Index
Feb 6, 2023 • 19m
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 1: the Story
Feb 6, 2023 • 24m
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 5m
Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 4, 2023 • 27m
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Feb 3, 2023 • 59m
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 1m
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 9m
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 20m
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 5: How to Read Shakespeare
Jan 30, 2023 • 20m
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2023 • 53m
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 11m
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 42m
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 50m
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 4: Shakespeare’s Work
Jan 23, 2023 • 9m
The Editor and Humility: A Conversation with the NYT's Peter Catapano
Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 4m
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 10m
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 13m
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 2m
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 1m
97* Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
Jan 19, 2023 • 33m
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2023 • 46m
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 3: Shakespeare’s Life
Jan 16, 2023 • 11m
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 51m
Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 0m
Criticism Amplified: New Media and the Podcast Form
Jan 13, 2023 • 12m
Child's Play: The Seriousness of Children's Literature
Jan 13, 2023 • 29m
Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel
Jan 12, 2023 • 48m
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 19m
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 6m
Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)
Jan 11, 2023 • 55m
The Fremen in "Dune"
Jan 10, 2023 • 54m
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 40m
Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
Jan 9, 2023 • 53m
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 2: Shakespeare’s World
Jan 9, 2023 • 18m
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
Jan 9, 2023 • 54m
Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jan 8, 2023 • 41m
Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 7m
Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 27m
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 11m
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Jan 6, 2023 • 39m
On W. H. Auden
Jan 5, 2023 • 25m
Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
Jan 4, 2023 • 13m
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 1: Why Read Shakespeare
Jan 2, 2023 • 10m
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Jan 1, 2023 • 28m
The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
Dec 31, 2022 • 46m
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
Dec 30, 2022 • 59m
Mani Rao, "Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty" (HarperCollins, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022 • 44m
Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022 • 49m
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022 • 34m
Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 15m
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
Dec 27, 2022 • 55m
Booksellers' Best of 2022
Dec 27, 2022 • 56m
Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History
Dec 27, 2022 • 49m
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 26, 2022 • 44m
Ian Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
Dec 26, 2022 • 54m
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2022 • 36m
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022 • 48m
Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022 • 36m
Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Dec 24, 2022 • 1h 42m
Jonathan Dil, "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022 • 55m
Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022 • 28m
Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022 • 55m
Arya Aryan, "The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022 • 34m
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
Dec 23, 2022 • 45m
Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 32m
Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 47m
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 17m
On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot
Dec 20, 2022 • 33m
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2022 • 35m
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 19m
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
Dec 19, 2022 • 50m
On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Dec 19, 2022 • 28m
On Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
Dec 16, 2022 • 31m
Off-Shore Aesthetics
Dec 16, 2022 • 20m
On Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
Dec 15, 2022 • 35m
Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022 • 43m
Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
Dec 15, 2022 • 24m
Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 43m
On Voltaire's "Candide"
Dec 14, 2022 • 27m
On Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Dec 13, 2022 • 31m
Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022 • 49m
On James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Dec 12, 2022 • 33m
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 12, 2022 • 1h 0m
Marco Codebò, "Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Dec 11, 2022 • 36m
Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 31m
Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Dec 11, 2022 • 35m
Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022 • 40m
Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 7m
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 42m
Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Dec 9, 2022 • 43m
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 3m
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 41m
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
Dec 8, 2022 • 35m
Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)
Dec 6, 2022 • 47m
On "1001 Nights"
Dec 6, 2022 • 30m
Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 53m
On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
Dec 5, 2022 • 41m
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Dec 3, 2022 • 30m
On Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
Dec 2, 2022 • 35m
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
Dec 2, 2022 • 35m
Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
Dec 2, 2022 • 46m
Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)
Dec 1, 2022 • 44m
Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022 • 49m
On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
Nov 30, 2022 • 41m
On George Orwell's "1984"
Nov 28, 2022 • 40m
Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 36m
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 49m
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 50m
Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022 • 32m
On George Eliot's "Middlemarch"
Nov 25, 2022 • 37m
Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 18m
On "The Mahābhārata"
Nov 23, 2022 • 42m
Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 3m
On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
Nov 21, 2022 • 27m
Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 37m
Grant Faulkner, "All the Comfort Sin Can Provide" (Black Lawrence Press, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022 • 43m
Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022 • 45m
Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 1m
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2022 • 58m
Yigal Bronner et al., "Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022 • 53m
Sindya Bhanoo, “Tsunami Bride” The Common magazine (Fall, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022 • 35m
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2022 • 56m
4.6 Translation is the Closest Way to Read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski
Nov 17, 2022 • 47m
Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022 • 46m
Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
Nov 17, 2022 • 46m
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022 • 54m
On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"
Nov 15, 2022 • 36m
Melancholy
Nov 15, 2022 • 15m
Kayla Maiuri, "Mother In the Dark: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022 • 35m
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022 • 51m
Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022 • 1h 3m
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022 • 42m
Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022 • 42m
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
Nov 10, 2022 • 29m
Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 39m
Kevin Wilson, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic" (Ecco Press, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 49m
On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
Nov 9, 2022 • 26m
Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 41m
On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
Nov 8, 2022 • 33m
Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)
Nov 7, 2022 • 36m
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Nov 4, 2022 • 31m
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 13m
4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay
Nov 3, 2022 • 49m
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
Nov 3, 2022 • 38m
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 28m
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 28m
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 57m
On "Grimms' Fairytales"
Nov 2, 2022 • 34m
Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 54m
On Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
Nov 1, 2022 • 29m
Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 1, 2022 • 59m
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 54m
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 3m
On Augustine's "Confessions"
Oct 31, 2022 • 33m
On Cicero's "On Friendship"
Oct 28, 2022 • 29m
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 9m
Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 42m
Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 27m
Halloween Special: Alice Walker’s Cat
Oct 28, 2022 • 20m
Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat
Oct 27, 2022 • 13m
On Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
Oct 27, 2022 • 30m
On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"
Oct 26, 2022 • 25m
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022 • 53m
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 43m
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022 • 58m
Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat Redux
Oct 26, 2022 • 13m
Amina Yaqin, "Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing" (Anthem, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 55m
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 3m
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022 • 39m
Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022 • 35m
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Oct 24, 2022 • 45m
On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas"
Oct 24, 2022 • 32m
Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat
Oct 24, 2022 • 13m
On Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Oct 21, 2022 • 31m
Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 32m
4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes.
Oct 20, 2022 • 53m
91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
Oct 20, 2022 • 31m
Martin Fárek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
Oct 20, 2022 • 54m
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov"
Oct 20, 2022 • 44m
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 38m
Cameron Awkward-Rich, "The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022 • 58m
Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 24m
Robert Steven Levine et al., "The Norton Anthology of American Literature" (Norton, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 45m
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 4m
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 5m
Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022 • 38m
Ellen Doré Watson, “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 32m
On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Oct 14, 2022 • 42m
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 4m
Want to Talk to People about Books? Here's How....
Oct 13, 2022 • 38m
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 4m
On Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Oct 10, 2022 • 28m
Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
Oct 10, 2022 • 23m
Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 59m
On John Hersey's "Hiroshima"
Oct 7, 2022 • 30m
Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 0m
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
Oct 7, 2022 • 53m
A. M. Homes, "The Unfolding" (Viking, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 48m
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Oct 6, 2022 • 38m
Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 6, 2022 • 46m
4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation
Oct 6, 2022 • 50m
On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
Oct 6, 2022 • 26m
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 6, 2022 • 43m
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 5, 2022 • 32m
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
Oct 5, 2022 • 33m
Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke
Oct 5, 2022 • 47m
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 3m
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Oct 4, 2022 • 52m
Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
Oct 4, 2022 • 42m
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
Oct 4, 2022 • 25m
Clothes in Literature: A Talk by Anne Hollander
Oct 3, 2022 • 25m
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 3, 2022 • 49m
Jane Satterfield, "Letter to Emily Brontë," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022 • 41m
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 4m
Peter Coviello, "Vineland Reread" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2022 • 56m
On Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"
Sep 27, 2022 • 28m
Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022 • 52m
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 52m
On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Sep 26, 2022 • 31m
Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 38m
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 26, 2022 • 38m
Olga Melnyk, "Ship Life: Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery" (2022)
Sep 23, 2022 • 42m
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
Sep 23, 2022 • 27m
Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada
Sep 22, 2022 • 32m
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 5m
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 43m
On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"
Sep 21, 2022 • 29m
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 9m
On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
Sep 20, 2022 • 33m
Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 30m
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 39m
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
Sep 16, 2022 • 28m
Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)
Sep 16, 2022 • 43m
89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)
Sep 15, 2022 • 48m
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
Sep 15, 2022 • 34m
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022 • 39m
Michael Ignatieff, "On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022 • 35m
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 28m
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 31m
Elizabeth Andrews Bond, "The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 13m
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 24m
Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Sep 9, 2022 • 52m
4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
Sep 8, 2022 • 59m
Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 28m
Silvia Schwarz Linder, "Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 8, 2022 • 45m
Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
Sep 7, 2022 • 49m
Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Sep 6, 2022 • 54m
Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)
Sep 5, 2022 • 41m
Erin James, "Narrative in the Anthropocene" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Sep 5, 2022 • 46m
Karinne Keithley Syers, "Astrs" (53rd State Press, 2022)
Sep 2, 2022 • 58m
4.0 Novel Dialogue Season 4: Transitions and Translations
Sep 1, 2022 • 11m
On Johann Friedrich von Schiller’s "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"
Aug 31, 2022 • 27m
On Homer's "The Iliad"
Aug 30, 2022 • 25m
Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 56m
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 49m
On Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
Aug 29, 2022 • 25m
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022 • 58m
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2022 • 2h 7m
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 10m
On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Aug 24, 2022 • 33m
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Aug 24, 2022 • 1h 31m
On Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
Aug 23, 2022 • 32m
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 12m
Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 59m
Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022 • 57m
On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Aug 17, 2022 • 37m
On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
Aug 16, 2022 • 31m
Jeremy Black, "The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022 • 30m
On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
Aug 12, 2022 • 24m
Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 9m
On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Aug 9, 2022 • 35m
Julia May Jonas, "Vladimir: A Novel" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Aug 9, 2022 • 38m
Alice M. Kelly, "Decolonising the Conrad Canon" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Aug 8, 2022 • 49m
Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
Aug 5, 2022 • 22m
Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Aug 5, 2022 • 1h 0m
Mohsin Hamid, "The Last White Man" (Riverhead, 2022)
Aug 5, 2022 • 30m
On Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
Aug 5, 2022 • 37m
Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang, "Shelf Documents: Art Library as Practice" (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 2021)
Aug 5, 2022 • 56m
On "The Story of the Stone"
Aug 4, 2022 • 26m
On Thomas of Monmouth's "The Life and Passion of William of Norwich"
Aug 3, 2022 • 30m
Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 35m
Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 3, 2022 • 47m
Emily O. Wittman, "Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing" (Amherst College Press, 2022)
Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 2, 2022 • 57m
Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Aug 2, 2022 • 45m
On Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
Aug 2, 2022 • 26m
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Aug 2, 2022 • 44m
Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 2m
On the Wanderer's Havamal and the Poetic Edda
Jul 28, 2022 • 54m
F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 7m
Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 2m
Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
Jul 22, 2022 • 59m
World Literature
Jul 21, 2022 • 15m
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
Jul 21, 2022 • 1h 3m
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
Jul 21, 2022 • 32m
85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview
Jul 21, 2022 • 31m
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
Jul 21, 2022 • 39m
Epic
Jul 20, 2022 • 16m
Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction
Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 2m
Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022 • 37m
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022 • 56m
Pigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public Intellectuals
Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 17m
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 51m
Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 8m
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Jul 15, 2022 • 1h 11m
Disintermediation
Jul 14, 2022 • 15m
Flatness
Jul 14, 2022 • 18m
Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 0m
Autofictionalization
Jul 12, 2022 • 13m
Negro Literature
Jul 11, 2022 • 18m
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Jul 8, 2022 • 41m
Book Proposal
Jul 7, 2022 • 13m
Adam Hanna, "Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 5m
*84 Cixin Liu Talks About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
Jul 7, 2022 • 50m
On the Epic of Gilgamesh
Jul 6, 2022 • 55m
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Jul 6, 2022 • 58m
Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 6, 2022 • 58m
Drew Daniel, "Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 5m
Ben Davis, "Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 29m
Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 9m
Trace
Jul 1, 2022 • 14m
Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre, "Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 0m
G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 30, 2022 • 44m
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 22m
Radha Raghunathan, "Soaring with Bharati in the Wisdom-Chariot (Ñānaratam)" (Adyar Library, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022 • 27m
Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 20m
Sextuality
Jun 29, 2022 • 13m
Joseph Boone, "Furnace Creek" (Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
Jun 29, 2022 • 57m
John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022 • 50m
Min Hyoung Song, "Climate Lyricism" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 13m
Cognitive Cultural Studies
Jun 28, 2022 • 15m
Kirstin L. Squint ed., "Conversations with LeAnne Howe" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 4m
Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 7m
José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Jun 27, 2022 • 45m
Mahshid Mayar, "Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022 • 39m
Whitney Trettien, "Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jun 27, 2022 • 38m
Archives
Jun 24, 2022 • 16m
Teresa Palomo Acosta, "Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts" (Texas A&M UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2022 • 30m
Lust
Jun 24, 2022 • 16m
Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2022 • 48m
Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022 • 34m
The Career of a Writer: A Discussion with Douglas Richards
Jun 24, 2022 • 58m
W. Michelle Wang, "Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2022 • 55m
William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2022 • 53m
Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 11m
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 21, 2022 • 53m
The Hyperlocal
Jun 21, 2022 • 15m
Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
Jun 20, 2022 • 46m
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022 • 48m
Brian Kulick, "The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation" (Routledge, 2019)
Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 4m
James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022 • 44m
83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
Jun 16, 2022 • 27m
Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 7m
Adam Grener, "Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jun 16, 2022 • 57m
James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.), "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022 • 48m
Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022 • 52m
Ghazal
Jun 14, 2022 • 16m
On Koans
Jun 10, 2022 • 54m
Racial Affect
Jun 9, 2022 • 15m
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 8, 2022 • 1h 9m
A Newly Discovered Essay by Fredrick Douglass: "Slavery" (1894-1895)
Jun 7, 2022 • 38m
Resonance
Jun 6, 2022 • 13m
Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 9m
Mickle Maher, "Six Plays" (Agate Press, 2022)
Jun 3, 2022 • 58m
Realism
Jun 2, 2022 • 19m
82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
Jun 2, 2022 • 54m
Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
Jun 1, 2022 • 43m
Julia Molinari, "What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 31, 2022 • 1h 21m
Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
May 31, 2022 • 48m
Modernist Mushrooms
May 30, 2022 • 13m
Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)
May 27, 2022 • 51m
Undisciplining
May 27, 2022 • 15m
Cheryl Collins Isaac, "Spin," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
May 27, 2022 • 33m
Dean Sluyter, "The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics" (New World Library, 2022)
May 27, 2022 • 59m
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
May 26, 2022 • 23m
Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 26, 2022 • 51m
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
May 26, 2022 • 1h 4m
Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
May 25, 2022 • 41m
Juan-José Martín-González, "Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
May 25, 2022 • 31m
Distant Reading
May 25, 2022 • 15m
Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)
May 24, 2022 • 1h 1m
Jiwei Xiao, "Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature" (Routledge, 2022)
May 23, 2022 • 2h 22m
Elizabeth Boyle, "Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past" (Sandycove, 2022)
May 23, 2022 • 55m
Autotheory
May 23, 2022 • 13m
Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 23, 2022 • 42m
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 53m
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 59m
Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 19, 2022 • 36m
81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
May 19, 2022 • 47m
Alison Calder, "Synaptic" (U Regina Press, 2022)
May 17, 2022 • 46m
Elizabeth Rodrigues, "Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
May 17, 2022 • 53m
Love as Critique
May 17, 2022 • 13m
Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
May 16, 2022 • 1h 26m
Witnessing
May 16, 2022 • 15m
Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 15, 2022 • 1h 9m
Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)
May 13, 2022 • 54m
Nathan Jordan Poole, "Idlewild," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
May 13, 2022 • 48m
9/11 Family Novel
May 12, 2022 • 17m
Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022 • 1h 8m
Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 10, 2022 • 1h 10m
Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)
May 9, 2022 • 55m
Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)
May 6, 2022 • 1h 0m
Computational Creativity
May 6, 2022 • 20m
Behind the Scenes at a Literary Magazine: The Common
May 5, 2022 • 53m
Institutions
May 5, 2022 • 12m
80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
May 5, 2022 • 50m
Mimesis
May 4, 2022 • 11m
Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 4, 2022 • 1h 14m
Anna von Rath, "Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin" (Peter Lang, 2022)
May 4, 2022 • 56m
Julie Pfeiffer, "Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 3, 2022 • 57m
Marta Puxan-Oliva, "Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel" (Routledge, 2021)
May 3, 2022 • 1h 1m
Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 2, 2022 • 52m
Gregory M. Clines, "Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation" (Routledge, 2022)
May 2, 2022 • 53m
Outdated Futures
May 2, 2022 • 17m
Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 29, 2022 • 42m
Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 1m
Hurricanes
Apr 28, 2022 • 12m
Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 17m
Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022 • 48m
Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 26, 2022 • 1h 15m
Rania Karoula, "The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Apr 22, 2022 • 53m
Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism" (Norton, 2022)
Apr 22, 2022 • 55m
79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
Apr 21, 2022 • 47m
Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022 • 54m
Nancy Pedri, "A Concise Dictionary of Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022 • 40m
Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022 • 50m
Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 10m
Intertextuality
Apr 15, 2022 • 13m
Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022 • 1h 3m
Caits Meissner, ed., "The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 3m
Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
Apr 14, 2022 • 55m
3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in Conversation
Apr 14, 2022 • 46m
Death of the Author
Apr 14, 2022 • 13m
Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 10m
Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 12m
Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 10m
G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
Apr 12, 2022 • 45m
Autonomous Work of Art
Apr 12, 2022 • 13m
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
Apr 12, 2022 • 52m
James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 5m
David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 14m
Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Apr 8, 2022 • 54m
78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
Apr 7, 2022 • 47m
Critique
Apr 7, 2022 • 12m
Unreliable Narrator
Apr 6, 2022 • 15m
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
Apr 6, 2022 • 36m
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 5, 2022 • 46m
Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 27m
Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 6m
Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 6m
Aura
Apr 4, 2022 • 11m
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 4, 2022 • 59m
Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)
Apr 1, 2022 • 48m
Welcome to High Theory
Apr 1, 2022 • 4m
Emma Lieber, "The Writing Cure" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 0m
3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)
Mar 31, 2022 • 37m
Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 30, 2022 • 27m
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022 • 44m
Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 17m
Shubha Sunder, “A Very Full Day” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
Mar 25, 2022 • 39m
Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022 • 55m
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination" (Lexington, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022 • 34m
Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 22, 2022 • 43m
Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
Mar 22, 2022 • 49m
Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 53m
On Writing and the Monk Life
Mar 18, 2022 • 1h 1m
Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
Mar 18, 2022 • 32m
3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
Mar 17, 2022 • 46m
Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 2m
Valerie Chepp, "Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 2m
Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 4m
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022 • 53m
Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022 • 42m
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022 • 57m
Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)
Mar 11, 2022 • 53m
Dahlia Schweitzer, "Haunted Homes" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022 • 52m
Larissa Fasthorse, "The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?" (Theatre Communications Group, 2021)
Mar 9, 2022 • 58m
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Mar 8, 2022 • 1h 1m
Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
Mar 8, 2022 • 46m
On Accidental Buddhism and the Writer's Life
Mar 7, 2022 • 46m
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 9m
Eliza Jane Smith, "Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Mar 4, 2022 • 47m
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Mar 3, 2022 • 41m
Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
Mar 3, 2022 • 47m
Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 24m
Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)
Mar 1, 2022 • 27m
Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 2m
Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 28, 2022 • 48m
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 19m
Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 20m
Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Feb 24, 2022 • 1h 4m
Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022 • 55m
Linda LeGarde Grover, "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022 • 25m
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, "Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 17m
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022 • 53m
Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)
Feb 22, 2022 • 1h 0m
Jessamine Chan, "The School for Good Mothers: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Feb 21, 2022 • 57m
For the Love of Translation: A Discussion of King Vajiravudh’s Translations of Western Literature in Early 20th-Century Siam
Feb 17, 2022 • 21m
Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022 • 58m
75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield
Feb 17, 2022 • 39m
3.2 Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies
Feb 17, 2022 • 47m
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Feb 14, 2022 • 41m
Mona Kareem, "Mapping Exile," The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
Feb 11, 2022 • 35m
David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Feb 11, 2022 • 51m
Leilei Chen, "Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding" (U Regina Press, 2016)
Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 24m
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Feb 8, 2022 • 37m
Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
Feb 8, 2022 • 55m
Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 6m
Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Feb 7, 2022 • 33m
74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places
Feb 3, 2022 • 36m
3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng
Feb 3, 2022 • 37m
R. David Lankes, "The New Librarianship Field Guide" (MIT Press, 2016)
Jan 31, 2022 • 56m
Sunny Xiang, "Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 31, 2022 • 53m
Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year" (Vintage, 2014)
Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 16m
Steven Tagle, “Notes on Looking Back” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
Jan 28, 2022 • 42m
Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
Jan 28, 2022 • 1h 2m
Bojana Videkanic, "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 36m
Kirsten W. Larson, "A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything" (Clarion Books, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022 • 41m
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
Jan 26, 2022 • 54m
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 1h 17m
Nigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 26, 2022 • 1h 39m
Megan Moore, "The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022 • 42m
Howard Chiang, "Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader" (Cambria Press, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022 • 51m
Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022 • 59m
Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan
Jan 20, 2022 • 49m
Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 20, 2022 • 57m
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 1m
Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
Jan 18, 2022 • 51m
Ziying You, "Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 3m
Julia Fine, "The Upstairs House: A Novel" (Harper Collins, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022 • 37m
Noor Naga, “Who Writes the Arabian Gulf?” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022 • 37m
Yuri Tynianov, "Küchlya, Decembrist Poet: A Novel" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022 • 50m
Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022 • 59m
Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 10m
Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jan 12, 2022 • 48m
Cara Blue Adams, "You Never Get It Back" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Jan 10, 2022 • 55m
71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)
Jan 6, 2022 • 37m
Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
Jan 5, 2022 • 1h 14m
Robert A. Gross, "The Transcendentalists and Their World" (FSG, 2021)
Jan 4, 2022 • 2h 31m
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
Jan 4, 2022 • 57m
Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 2m
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 23m
Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu, trans., "The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Dec 29, 2021 • 1h 2m
From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
Dec 29, 2021 • 1h 54m
Takashi Saitō, "Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan" (Chisokudo, 2020)
Dec 28, 2021 • 39m
Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 27, 2021 • 1h 15m
E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021 • 1h 0m
Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021 • 38m
Janneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT Press, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021 • 57m
Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021 • 54m
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 22, 2021 • 40m
David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021 • 46m
Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021 • 54m
Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021 • 1h 18m
Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
Dec 20, 2021 • 59m
Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 4m
Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 5m
2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye
Dec 16, 2021 • 48m
Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021 • 47m
Elizabeth McHenry, "To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 15, 2021 • 1h 3m
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Dec 15, 2021 • 39m
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 46m
Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021 • 46m
Kate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 18m
Bryan M. Santin, "Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 1m
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen, "The Library: A Rich and Fragile History" (Basic Books, 2021)
Dec 7, 2021 • 48m
Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang
Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 9m
Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 7m
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 21m
Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Dec 3, 2021 • 50m
2.6 Dreaming or Thinking: Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas
Dec 2, 2021 • 33m
William Germano, "On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 17m
Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
Dec 1, 2021 • 50m
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021 • 57m
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021 • 31m
Gretchen E. Minton, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021 • 50m
Atmadarshan Laura Santoro, "Song of Your Soul," a New Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Nov 24, 2021 • 55m
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021 • 59m
Daniel Alexander Jones, "Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts" (53rd State Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021 • 1h 6m
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 30m
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70" (Amberley, 2022)
Nov 22, 2021 • 37m
Mike Palmquist and Barbara Wallraff, "Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers With 2020 APA Update" (Bedford Books, 2020)
Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 17m
Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 6m
68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
Nov 18, 2021 • 43m
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)
Nov 18, 2021 • 55m
John B. Kachuba, "Shapeshifters: A History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
Nov 17, 2021 • 44m
Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 4m
Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 17, 2021 • 58m
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