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Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
26 mins; February 16, 2025
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 19 mins; February 14, 2025
Failed Passing
19 mins; February 12, 2025
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
49 mins; February 09, 2025
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 38 mins; February 09, 2025
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
112 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2025
Andrew Campana, "Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" (U California Press, 2024)
62 hours 54 mins; February 06, 2025
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 04, 2025
D. C. Helmuth, "Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories" (Lonely Planet, 2024)
41 mins; February 04, 2025
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
38 mins; February 03, 2025
Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
38 mins; February 02, 2025
Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
47 mins; February 01, 2025
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
66 hours 55 mins; January 30, 2025
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
50 mins; January 30, 2025
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
72 hours 8 mins; January 29, 2025
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
30 mins; January 25, 2025
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
72 hours 36 mins; January 24, 2025
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
54 mins; January 23, 2025
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
70 hours 7 mins; January 23, 2025
David Mckinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study" (Routledge, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; January 23, 2025
Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
42 mins; January 22, 2025
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 5 mins; January 20, 2025
Melanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
52 mins; January 19, 2025
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
59 mins; January 18, 2025
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta MĂĽller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
100 hours 18 mins; January 17, 2025
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
44 mins; January 16, 2025
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
53 mins; January 16, 2025
Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
72 hours 17 mins; January 14, 2025
Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
52 mins; January 13, 2025
Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
54 mins; January 13, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
47 mins; January 09, 2025
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
50 mins; January 08, 2025
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
58 mins; January 07, 2025
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
56 mins; January 06, 2025
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2025
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
72 hours 37 mins; January 02, 2025
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
62 hours 0 mins; January 02, 2025
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
38 mins; December 31, 2024
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
56 mins; December 30, 2024
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
90 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
66 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
54 mins; December 29, 2024
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 29, 2024
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
79 hours 10 mins; December 28, 2024
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
56 mins; December 28, 2024
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
55 mins; December 26, 2024
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 25, 2024
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; December 24, 2024
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
78 hours 2 mins; December 24, 2024
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
69 hours 57 mins; December 24, 2024
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 2 mins; December 23, 2024
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
71 hours 22 mins; December 22, 2024
Booksellers’ Best 2024
49 mins; December 20, 2024
Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
54 mins; December 20, 2024
“I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”
52 mins; December 19, 2024
Nergis ErtĂĽrk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
72 hours 22 mins; December 18, 2024
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 17, 2024
Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
36 mins; December 15, 2024
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 40 mins; December 13, 2024
Angela Kim Harkins, "Reading with an "I" to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions" (de Gruyter, 2018)
64 hours 4 mins; December 13, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 38 mins; December 12, 2024
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
69 hours 6 mins; December 12, 2024
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
86 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
47 mins; December 08, 2024
Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 06, 2024
Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
65 hours 15 mins; December 05, 2024
And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
53 mins; December 05, 2024
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
56 mins; December 05, 2024
Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
54 mins; December 04, 2024
Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
34 mins; December 03, 2024
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"
73 hours 51 mins; December 02, 2024
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)
42 mins; December 01, 2024
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 55 mins; November 30, 2024
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 29, 2024
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
83 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
48 mins; November 26, 2024
Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 mins; November 23, 2024
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
52 mins; November 23, 2024
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
25 mins; November 22, 2024
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
87 hours 32 mins; November 22, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
47 mins; November 22, 2024
Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 mins; November 21, 2024
All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV)
44 mins; November 21, 2024
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
39 mins; November 20, 2024
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 49 mins; November 17, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
58 mins; November 16, 2024
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
60 hours 0 mins; November 15, 2024
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
44 mins; November 14, 2024
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
50 mins; November 13, 2024
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)
59 mins; November 10, 2024
Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
41 mins; November 10, 2024
Non-literary Fiction
14 mins; November 09, 2024
Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
32 mins; November 08, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
38 mins; November 07, 2024
8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
30 mins; November 07, 2024
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 07, 2024
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; November 06, 2024
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
73 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2024
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 04, 2024
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
32 mins; November 02, 2024
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