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Tim Beasley-Murray, "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 25, 2025
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
82 hours 8 mins; October 24, 2025
Kathryn Robson, "Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
47 mins; October 22, 2025
Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (U Alberta Press, 2025)
35 mins; October 22, 2025
Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
55 mins; October 21, 2025
Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
38 mins; October 21, 2025
Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
58 mins; October 20, 2025
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
59 mins; October 19, 2025
Cassandra S. Tully de Lope, "Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers" (Routledge, 2024)
51 mins; October 14, 2025
Utopia is Boring with Evie Kendal
33 mins; October 14, 2025
Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 11, 2025
Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
51 mins; October 11, 2025
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)
71 hours 58 mins; October 08, 2025
Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; October 07, 2025
Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)
36 mins; October 05, 2025
157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
46 mins; October 02, 2025
Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman
90 hours 43 mins; October 02, 2025
Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
37 mins; October 01, 2025
Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell eds., "Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
47 mins; September 30, 2025
Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
61 hours 10 mins; September 29, 2025
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; September 27, 2025
Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
49 mins; September 27, 2025
Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz and Sara Garbagnoli "La Pensée Wittig: Une Introduction" (Payot, 2025)
43 mins; September 26, 2025
Julia Rensing, "Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)
46 mins; September 25, 2025
Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
49 mins; September 25, 2025
Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
67 hours 26 mins; September 24, 2025
Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 22, 2025
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 14 mins; September 22, 2025
Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
57 mins; September 20, 2025
Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
61 hours 25 mins; September 19, 2025
156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
15 mins; September 18, 2025
Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, "The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New Tellings of Half-forgotten Stories from England's 39 Historic Counties" (The History Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 18, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 15, 2025
Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
28 mins; September 14, 2025
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
108 hours 38 mins; September 13, 2025
Rose Casey, "Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style" (Fordham UP, 2025)
52 mins; September 12, 2025
Darcie Deangelo et al., "Demilitarizing the Future" (Anthem Press, 2025)
50 mins; September 10, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Understanding Hunter S. Thompson" (U South Carolina Press, 2025)
43 mins; September 07, 2025
Brian Duff, "Restaurant" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; September 06, 2025
Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; September 05, 2025
Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region" (U Washington Press, 2025)
36 mins; September 03, 2025
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 03, 2025
Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
45 mins; September 02, 2025
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
51 mins; September 01, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; August 31, 2025
Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)
56 mins; August 28, 2025
Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
64 hours 33 mins; August 27, 2025
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 26, 2025
Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
77 hours 58 mins; August 24, 2025
Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
54 mins; August 23, 2025
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 22, 2025
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
29 mins; August 21, 2025
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 17, 2025
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
72 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025
Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
42 mins; August 12, 2025
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
100 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2025
Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
24 mins; August 08, 2025
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
46 mins; August 07, 2025
Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
51 mins; August 05, 2025
Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
65 hours 2 mins; August 04, 2025
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
32 mins; August 03, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; August 03, 2025
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
69 hours 55 mins; August 02, 2025
Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2024)
45 mins; August 01, 2025
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
46 mins; July 31, 2025
Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)
46 mins; July 29, 2025
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
68 hours 36 mins; July 27, 2025
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
62 hours 42 mins; July 24, 2025
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
43 mins; July 22, 2025
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
50 mins; July 21, 2025
John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
85 hours 16 mins; July 14, 2025
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
83 hours 27 mins; July 10, 2025
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
35 mins; July 10, 2025
Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
76 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2025
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; July 08, 2025
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
74 hours 32 mins; July 06, 2025
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
52 mins; July 05, 2025
Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
45 mins; July 05, 2025
Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024)
70 hours 4 mins; July 02, 2025
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; July 01, 2025
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 9 mins; June 29, 2025
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
33 mins; June 29, 2025
Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
54 mins; June 27, 2025
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)
36 mins; June 25, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
54 mins; June 22, 2025
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 22, 2025
Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word" (Routledge, 2023)
39 mins; June 21, 2025
Eva De Clercq, Heleen De Jonckheere, and Simon Winant eds., "Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice" (Ergon-Verlag, 2025)
72 hours 12 mins; June 21, 2025
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
43 mins; June 20, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 19, 2025
Carolin Duttlinger, "Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 45 mins; June 17, 2025
Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
41 mins; June 09, 2025
Surindar Nath Pandita, "डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote" (Pune, 2024)
52 mins; June 09, 2025
Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
53 mins; June 08, 2025
152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
44 mins; June 07, 2025
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
58 mins; June 07, 2025
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