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Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
67 hours 22 mins; June 06, 2025
151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
32 mins; June 05, 2025
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
66 hours 21 mins; June 02, 2025
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
53 mins; June 02, 2025
Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
34 mins; June 01, 2025
Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
47 mins; May 31, 2025
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
65 hours 0 mins; May 30, 2025
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 28, 2025
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
35 mins; May 27, 2025
Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; May 25, 2025
Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
50 mins; May 24, 2025
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
50 mins; May 22, 2025
DagrĂșn Ósk JĂłnsdĂłttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
49 mins; May 21, 2025
Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
77 hours 9 mins; May 20, 2025
Pāáč‡ážitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
49 mins; May 19, 2025
Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
46 mins; May 18, 2025
Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
30 mins; May 17, 2025
James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
78 hours 30 mins; May 16, 2025
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
29 mins; May 15, 2025
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
59 mins; May 14, 2025
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
55 mins; May 13, 2025
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
58 mins; May 11, 2025
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 10, 2025
“That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
54 mins; May 09, 2025
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
65 hours 20 mins; May 08, 2025
Nothingism
20 mins; May 06, 2025
Robin Miles: Talking Books
74 hours 29 mins; May 05, 2025
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
47 mins; May 04, 2025
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
58 mins; May 02, 2025
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 42 mins; April 30, 2025
Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 29, 2025
Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; April 27, 2025
Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
76 hours 44 mins; April 26, 2025
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
50 mins; April 24, 2025
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
69 hours 42 mins; April 23, 2025
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; April 23, 2025
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
81 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2025
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 20, 2025
Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
104 hours 29 mins; April 18, 2025
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 55 mins; April 16, 2025
Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
51 mins; April 13, 2025
Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
48 mins; April 13, 2025
Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 12, 2025
The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
107 hours 43 mins; April 11, 2025
9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper
49 mins; April 10, 2025
Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
61 hours 28 mins; April 10, 2025
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
76 hours 30 mins; April 08, 2025
Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
62 hours 36 mins; April 07, 2025
Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
30 mins; April 06, 2025
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
64 hours 35 mins; April 05, 2025
Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 04, 2025
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
68 hours 10 mins; April 02, 2025
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; April 02, 2025
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
54 mins; April 01, 2025
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
51 mins; March 31, 2025
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 30, 2025
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
54 mins; March 29, 2025
9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW)
48 mins; March 27, 2025
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 9 mins; March 27, 2025
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
66 hours 57 mins; March 26, 2025
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
32 mins; March 25, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
24 mins; March 23, 2025
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
41 mins; March 22, 2025
Writing Against the System
34 mins; March 21, 2025
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
96 hours 13 mins; March 20, 2025
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 19, 2025
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; March 18, 2025
Action Without Hope
21 mins; March 17, 2025
Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
87 hours 30 mins; March 16, 2025
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
64 hours 48 mins; March 15, 2025
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; March 14, 2025
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
52 mins; March 13, 2025
Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
94 hours 17 mins; March 12, 2025
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; March 12, 2025
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
75 hours 43 mins; March 11, 2025
Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
68 hours 59 mins; March 09, 2025
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
42 mins; March 08, 2025
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
47 mins; March 07, 2025
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 05, 2025
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
60 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; March 04, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
33 mins; March 03, 2025
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; February 28, 2025
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; February 28, 2025
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
92 hours 23 mins; February 26, 2025
Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
71 hours 35 mins; February 26, 2025
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
68 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2025
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
57 mins; February 22, 2025
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 51 mins; February 22, 2025
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
90 hours 54 mins; February 22, 2025
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025
Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 21, 2025
Poetry
22 mins; February 20, 2025
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; February 19, 2025
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
55 mins; February 19, 2025
Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
71 hours 35 mins; February 19, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
84 hours 52 mins; February 17, 2025
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
54 mins; February 16, 2025
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