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Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
71 hours 28 mins; April 18, 2024
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
29 mins; April 17, 2024
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
36 mins; April 17, 2024
Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022)
42 mins; April 16, 2024
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
63 hours 8 mins; April 14, 2024
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
39 mins; April 14, 2024
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
60 hours 37 mins; April 12, 2024
Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; April 11, 2024
"The American Scholar" Magazine: A Discussion with Stephanie Bastek
26 mins; April 11, 2024
Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
39 mins; April 11, 2024
Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP)
41 mins; April 11, 2024
Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
57 mins; April 10, 2024
Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 09, 2024
Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
60 hours 0 mins; April 09, 2024
Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
49 mins; April 09, 2024
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
40 mins; April 08, 2024
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
54 mins; April 08, 2024
Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)
55 mins; April 08, 2024
Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
40 mins; April 07, 2024
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 04, 2024
E. G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
37 mins; April 04, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
81 hours 46 mins; April 02, 2024
Alessandro Columbu, "Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
55 mins; March 29, 2024
Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
80 hours 15 mins; March 29, 2024
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
36 mins; March 27, 2024
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 52 mins; March 26, 2024
Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
37 mins; March 25, 2024
Melodrama
22 mins; March 24, 2024
Tim Lanzendörfer, "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
41 mins; March 24, 2024
David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
45 mins; March 21, 2024
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
41 mins; March 20, 2024
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
50 mins; March 19, 2024
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 47 mins; March 18, 2024
Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat, "Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 17, 2024
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; March 17, 2024
Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
54 mins; March 15, 2024
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; March 15, 2024
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
62 hours 25 mins; March 13, 2024
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
74 hours 23 mins; March 13, 2024
Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 12, 2024
Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
53 mins; March 11, 2024
Jad Adams, "Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
36 mins; March 10, 2024
Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
41 mins; March 09, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
47 mins; March 08, 2024
AGNI magazine: A Discussion with Sven Birkerts
30 mins; March 07, 2024
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
52 mins; March 06, 2024
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
91 hours 29 mins; March 06, 2024
Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
35 mins; March 05, 2024
Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
54 mins; March 05, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
59 mins; March 04, 2024
Close Reading
15 mins; March 02, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
87 hours 1 min; March 01, 2024
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
28 mins; March 01, 2024
Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
91 hours 38 mins; February 29, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; February 26, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; February 24, 2024
Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; February 23, 2024
Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
67 hours 20 mins; February 20, 2024
Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)
63 hours 8 mins; February 20, 2024
Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 19, 2024
MagalĂ­ Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
79 hours 5 mins; February 18, 2024
Sheila Heti Speaks About Awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
43 mins; February 16, 2024
Criticism
21 mins; February 15, 2024
Cheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)
66 hours 51 mins; February 10, 2024
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
34 mins; February 10, 2024
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; February 10, 2024
"The New England Review" magazine: A Discussion with Elizabeth Kadetsky
28 mins; February 08, 2024
Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; February 07, 2024
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
69 hours 55 mins; February 05, 2024
Refqa Abu-Remaileh, "Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature" (Stanford UP, 2023)
80 hours 56 mins; February 04, 2024
Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
66 hours 9 mins; February 03, 2024
"Fourth Genre" Magazine: A Chat with Patrick Madden and Joey Franklin Askey
24 mins; February 01, 2024
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 01, 2024
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
39 mins; January 30, 2024
Francesca Orsini, "East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature" (Oxford UP, 2023)
71 hours 27 mins; January 29, 2024
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; January 28, 2024
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
64 hours 6 mins; January 28, 2024
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
35 mins; January 27, 2024
Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
54 mins; January 26, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
"The Sun" Magazine: A Chat with Derek Askey
24 mins; January 25, 2024
"Solstice" Magazine: A Discussion with Richard Hoffman
29 mins; January 24, 2024
Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)
40 mins; January 24, 2024
Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
25 mins; January 23, 2024
"n+1" Magazine: A Discussion with Dayna Tortorici
24 mins; January 22, 2024
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 21, 2024
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
40 mins; January 21, 2024
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
60 hours 25 mins; January 21, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024
Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in ChosĹŹn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
58 mins; January 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
56 mins; January 19, 2024
Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
48 mins; January 19, 2024
Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
29 mins; January 19, 2024
Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
35 mins; January 15, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
83 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2024
Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
56 mins; January 13, 2024
Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
47 mins; January 12, 2024
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
57 mins; January 11, 2024
Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
40 mins; January 10, 2024
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