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Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
33 mins; November 02, 2024
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
45 mins; November 01, 2024
Ghosts In Our Fields
28 mins; November 01, 2024
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
76 hours 54 mins; November 01, 2024
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
49 mins; October 31, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
84 hours 55 mins; October 30, 2024
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
32 mins; October 30, 2024
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
55 mins; October 29, 2024
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
97 hours 55 mins; October 28, 2024
Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
49 mins; October 28, 2024
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 27, 2024
To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)
48 mins; October 25, 2024
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
47 mins; October 23, 2024
Benjamin Bergholtz, "Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 21, 2024
Sonja Stojanovic, "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
66 hours 47 mins; October 20, 2024
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
56 mins; October 18, 2024
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
29 mins; October 17, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
35 mins; October 17, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
41 mins; October 16, 2024
V. Domontovych, "On Shaky Ground" (CEU Press, 2024)
28 mins; October 14, 2024
P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
29 mins; October 14, 2024
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 25 mins; October 12, 2024
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
78 hours 50 mins; October 12, 2024
Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 12, 2024
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
73 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2024
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
55 mins; October 11, 2024
Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)
48 mins; October 10, 2024
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
66 hours 53 mins; October 08, 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
54 mins; October 04, 2024
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
59 mins; October 03, 2024
Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City Montana" (JP)
48 mins; October 03, 2024
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
73 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2024
Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
44 mins; October 02, 2024
Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 29, 2024
Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
47 mins; September 28, 2024
Jennifer Mooney, "Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; September 28, 2024
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
45 mins; September 28, 2024
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 23, 2024
Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
79 hours 46 mins; September 22, 2024
Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; September 20, 2024
Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
44 mins; September 19, 2024
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
55 mins; September 19, 2024
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
70 hours 44 mins; September 18, 2024
Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 27 mins; September 16, 2024
Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
58 mins; September 16, 2024
Before and After the Book Deal
62 hours 50 mins; September 12, 2024
Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
19 mins; September 12, 2024
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
33 mins; September 12, 2024
Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
55 mins; September 10, 2024
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
54 mins; September 09, 2024
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
44 mins; September 07, 2024
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; September 06, 2024
Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
65 hours 30 mins; September 05, 2024
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
35 mins; September 04, 2024
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 04, 2024
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; September 03, 2024
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
61 hours 37 mins; September 03, 2024
Beth Driscoll, "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
40 mins; August 31, 2024
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
68 hours 3 mins; August 28, 2024
Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024)
26 mins; August 27, 2024
Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
73 hours 53 mins; August 24, 2024
Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
64 hours 18 mins; August 24, 2024
Literatures beyond the West
80 hours 38 mins; August 22, 2024
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
57 mins; August 21, 2024
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 36 mins; August 19, 2024
Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
69 hours 10 mins; August 19, 2024
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
53 mins; August 14, 2024
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
55 mins; August 14, 2024
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
43 mins; August 13, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; August 12, 2024
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
70 hours 56 mins; August 12, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
39 mins; August 11, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
46 mins; August 11, 2024
Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
66 hours 27 mins; August 10, 2024
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
61 hours 8 mins; August 07, 2024
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
60 hours 3 mins; August 06, 2024
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 2 mins; August 06, 2024
Goth Diss
61 hours 56 mins; August 05, 2024
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59 mins; August 05, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
63 hours 13 mins; August 03, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; August 03, 2024
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
37 mins; August 02, 2024
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
55 mins; August 02, 2024
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; July 30, 2024
Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
30 mins; July 30, 2024
Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
76 hours 35 mins; July 27, 2024
Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)
52 mins; July 27, 2024
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
72 hours 20 mins; July 27, 2024
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
64 hours 32 mins; July 25, 2024
Muslimness in Books for Young Readers: A Chat with A. M. Dassu
60 hours 16 mins; July 25, 2024
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 37 mins; July 25, 2024
Miguel Escobar Varela, "Theater as Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
36 mins; July 24, 2024
Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists" (Duke UP, 2023)
50 mins; July 23, 2024
Hannan Hever, "Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s" (Stanford UP, 2016)
108 hours 22 mins; July 23, 2024
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
64 hours 9 mins; July 23, 2024
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; July 23, 2024
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