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HĂ©ctor Tobar, "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'" (MCD, 2023)
47 mins; July 26, 2023
Alejandro Varela, "The Town of Babylon" (Astra, 2022)
43 mins; July 24, 2023
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)
33 mins; July 24, 2023
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 1: The Story
24 mins; July 24, 2023
Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)
55 mins; July 23, 2023
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
33 mins; July 22, 2023
Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
94 hours 40 mins; July 22, 2023
"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
75 hours 1 min; July 21, 2023
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
68 hours 5 mins; July 21, 2023
Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
45 mins; July 20, 2023
Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
39 mins; July 20, 2023
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
60 hours 19 mins; July 19, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
41 mins; July 17, 2023
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; July 16, 2023
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
80 hours 7 mins; July 16, 2023
Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
71 hours 34 mins; July 14, 2023
Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
55 mins; July 14, 2023
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
65 hours 45 mins; July 11, 2023
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
52 mins; July 11, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; July 10, 2023
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
53 mins; July 10, 2023
Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
73 hours 2 mins; July 09, 2023
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
53 mins; July 09, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
46 mins; July 08, 2023
Mateusz Ĺšwietlicki, "Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
47 mins; July 07, 2023
Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)
63 hours 49 mins; July 05, 2023
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
43 mins; July 04, 2023
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)
98 hours 28 mins; July 04, 2023
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
71 hours 30 mins; July 04, 2023
Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 03, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; July 03, 2023
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 mins; July 01, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
19 mins; June 30, 2023
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
17 mins; June 29, 2023
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
42 mins; June 27, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
29 mins; June 26, 2023
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
87 hours 47 mins; June 25, 2023
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
47 mins; June 25, 2023
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2023
The Environmental Unconscious
21 mins; June 20, 2023
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
73 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions
20 mins; June 19, 2023
The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Cooper
48 mins; June 18, 2023
Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 18, 2023
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 17, 2023
Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
68 hours 14 mins; June 16, 2023
Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
45 mins; June 16, 2023
A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)
43 mins; June 15, 2023
The Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)
47 mins; June 15, 2023
Mark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
32 mins; June 15, 2023
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
33 mins; June 15, 2023
Masood Ashraf Raja, "Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred" (Lever Press, 2023)
21 mins; June 14, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 1: The Story
20 mins; June 12, 2023
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
39 mins; June 12, 2023
D. J. Taylor, "Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews, 2010-2022" (Shoestring Press, 2023)
34 mins; June 12, 2023
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; June 11, 2023
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
37 mins; June 10, 2023
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
56 mins; June 10, 2023
Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 10, 2023
Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
54 mins; June 09, 2023
Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; June 09, 2023
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 08, 2023
Yakup Kadri KaraosmanoÄźlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
55 mins; June 06, 2023
Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of GĂłngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
35 mins; June 05, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
32 mins; June 05, 2023
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023
They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera
56 mins; June 01, 2023
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
58 mins; May 31, 2023
Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)
68 hours 21 mins; May 30, 2023
Rebeca L. Hey-ColĂłn, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)
38 mins; May 30, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions
23 mins; May 29, 2023
Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
43 mins; May 26, 2023
Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)
58 mins; May 26, 2023
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; May 26, 2023
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
40 mins; May 25, 2023
Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
39 mins; May 25, 2023
Party
17 mins; May 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; May 22, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 22, 2023
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
44 mins; May 22, 2023
Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)
31 mins; May 20, 2023
Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
78 hours 25 mins; May 20, 2023
Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
37 mins; May 19, 2023
Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; May 18, 2023
David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
21 mins; May 18, 2023
5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life
48 mins; May 17, 2023
The Meat and Bones of Life
48 mins; May 17, 2023
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
56 mins; May 16, 2023
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
46 mins; May 16, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language
36 mins; May 15, 2023
Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
56 mins; May 14, 2023
Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
60 hours 44 mins; May 13, 2023
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 13 mins; May 11, 2023
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
37 mins; May 11, 2023
Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
55 mins; May 11, 2023
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
46 mins; May 10, 2023
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
34 mins; May 10, 2023
Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
45 mins; May 10, 2023
Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
60 hours 26 mins; May 10, 2023
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