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Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
58 mins; July 21, 2024
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
54 mins; July 21, 2024
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
67 hours 58 mins; July 20, 2024
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; July 20, 2024
Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
63 hours 36 mins; July 19, 2024
Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers
74 hours 30 mins; July 18, 2024
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 56 mins; July 16, 2024
Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)
54 mins; July 16, 2024
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
57 mins; July 14, 2024
Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)
68 hours 36 mins; July 13, 2024
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 12, 2024
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
72 hours 26 mins; July 10, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
50 mins; July 09, 2024
Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; July 09, 2024
Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 49 mins; July 08, 2024
Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman, "Law and Humanities" (Anthem Press, 2024)
98 hours 15 mins; July 07, 2024
Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024)
133 hours 4 mins; July 05, 2024
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; July 05, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
24 mins; July 05, 2024
Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)
40 mins; July 04, 2024
Aaron Sherraden, "Śambūka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaṇa Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
35 mins; July 04, 2024
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 29, 2024
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
39 mins; June 28, 2024
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 28, 2024
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
66 hours 34 mins; June 28, 2024
Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)
39 mins; June 27, 2024
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
52 mins; June 25, 2024
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
45 mins; June 25, 2024
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
64 hours 40 mins; June 22, 2024
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
49 mins; June 22, 2024
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
42 mins; June 22, 2024
Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 26 mins; June 21, 2024
Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH)
50 mins; June 20, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
35 mins; June 20, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 12, 2024
Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
37 mins; June 12, 2024
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
63 hours 52 mins; June 11, 2024
Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
61 hours 52 mins; June 09, 2024
Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)
50 mins; June 06, 2024
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
52 mins; June 04, 2024
Benjamin Balint, "Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy" (Norton, 2019)
41 mins; June 03, 2024
Robert Cochran, "Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis" (U Arkansas Press, 2024)
74 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2024
Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024)
30 mins; June 01, 2024
Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2024
Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; May 30, 2024
Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
36 mins; May 29, 2024
Rebecca Copeland, "Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 29, 2024
Aakriti Mandhwani, "Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
54 mins; May 29, 2024
Edwin McRae, "Narrative Worldbuilding: A Player Centric Approach to Designing Story Rich Game Worlds" (Narrative, 2024)
28 mins; May 28, 2024
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 28, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; May 28, 2024
Jan Baetens, "Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 26, 2024
Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)
70 hours 0 mins; May 26, 2024
Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
73 hours 5 mins; May 26, 2024
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
61 hours 15 mins; May 24, 2024
Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
53 mins; May 24, 2024
Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; May 23, 2024
Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024)
55 mins; May 22, 2024
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
32 mins; May 21, 2024
Jeremy Black, "In Fielding's Wake" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
46 mins; May 21, 2024
Shakespeare in America
56 mins; May 18, 2024
Nuzhat Abbas, "River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation" (Trace Press, 2023)
31 mins; May 18, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2024
Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)
48 mins; May 16, 2024
"Orion" Magazine: A Discussion with Sumanth Prabhaker
34 mins; May 15, 2024
Inhuman
20 mins; May 14, 2024
Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 14, 2024
Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 14, 2024
Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
60 hours 46 mins; May 13, 2024
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
46 mins; May 13, 2024
Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
52 mins; May 13, 2024
Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
40 mins; May 12, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 11, 2024
B. J. Woodstein, "Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator" (Anthem Press, 2024)
50 mins; May 10, 2024
Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
70 hours 0 mins; May 10, 2024
What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)
47 mins; May 09, 2024
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
45 mins; May 09, 2024
Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (JP)
73 hours 47 mins; May 09, 2024
Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, "(Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games" (de Gruyter, 2023)
25 mins; May 08, 2024
Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
35 mins; May 07, 2024
Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
44 mins; May 07, 2024
Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
48 mins; May 07, 2024
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 43 mins; May 05, 2024
Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
26 mins; May 03, 2024
Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)
50 mins; May 02, 2024
Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
66 hours 50 mins; May 02, 2024
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; May 01, 2024
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 30, 2024
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
48 mins; April 30, 2024
Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
42 mins; April 30, 2024
Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
37 mins; April 28, 2024
Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
50 mins; April 28, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
61 hours 36 mins; April 27, 2024
Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)
55 mins; April 26, 2024
You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
58 mins; April 25, 2024
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
36 mins; April 23, 2024
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
48 mins; April 23, 2024
Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
50 mins; April 20, 2024
Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
103 hours 16 mins; April 18, 2024
Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
41 mins; April 18, 2024
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