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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Description: Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts academics other schools have thrown out?Helen decides she must go--her work is too important. She brings along her partner, Hew, who is much less sanguine about living on an island...