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Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

64 hours 16 mins; January 08, 2024

Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)

60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024

Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)

35 mins; January 05, 2024

Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

46 mins; January 04, 2024

Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book

60 hours 53 mins; January 04, 2024

Plot

18 mins; January 04, 2024

Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

39 mins; January 02, 2024

Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

75 hours 32 mins; January 01, 2024

Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)

41 mins; December 31, 2023

Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)

42 mins; December 30, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me

44 mins; December 29, 2023

Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)

37 mins; December 29, 2023

Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)

59 mins; December 28, 2023

Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

41 mins; December 28, 2023

Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

53 mins; December 25, 2023

Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)

67 hours 49 mins; December 25, 2023

Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)

67 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2023

George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

79 hours 16 mins; December 24, 2023

Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature" (Penn State UP, 2023)

47 mins; December 24, 2023

Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

96 hours 15 mins; December 23, 2023

Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)

40 mins; December 22, 2023

Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

33 mins; December 22, 2023

Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

62 hours 41 mins; December 22, 2023

Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

35 mins; December 21, 2023

Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

31 mins; December 20, 2023

Saving the Brontë Birthplace

30 mins; December 19, 2023

Jonathan Kramnick, "Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; December 19, 2023

Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)

65 hours 42 mins; December 17, 2023

Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)

49 mins; December 17, 2023

Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

46 mins; December 15, 2023

Boria Sax, "Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

53 mins; December 15, 2023

Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)

72 hours 30 mins; December 15, 2023

Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)

32 mins; December 14, 2023

Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff

44 mins; December 14, 2023

Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

35 mins; December 10, 2023

Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

67 hours 35 mins; December 08, 2023

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

51 mins; December 04, 2023

Book Chat: Eco-translation from Taiwan and Wu Ming-yi’s The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記, with Darryl Sterk

32 mins; December 02, 2023

Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)

46 mins; December 01, 2023

Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)

50 mins; December 01, 2023

Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)

48 mins; November 30, 2023

Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

64 hours 22 mins; November 29, 2023

Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

59 mins; November 29, 2023

Plagiarism

20 mins; November 28, 2023

Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)

57 mins; November 28, 2023

Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)

59 mins; November 25, 2023

Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

42 mins; November 25, 2023

Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

45 mins; November 25, 2023

Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

63 hours 25 mins; November 25, 2023

Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)

42 mins; November 25, 2023

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2023

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

38 mins; November 23, 2023

Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)

59 mins; November 21, 2023

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 3

30 mins; November 20, 2023

Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)

64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2023

Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

43 mins; November 18, 2023

“We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”

46 mins; November 16, 2023

Bahriye Kemal, "Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space" (Routledge, 2021)

92 hours 45 mins; November 16, 2023

Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

43 mins; November 15, 2023

Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)

96 hours 10 mins; November 14, 2023

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2

25 mins; November 13, 2023

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

54 mins; November 12, 2023

Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

47 mins; November 12, 2023

Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)

45 mins; November 10, 2023

Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)

81 hours 55 mins; November 09, 2023

Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)

31 mins; November 09, 2023

Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives

82 hours 23 mins; November 08, 2023

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1

21 mins; November 06, 2023

Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

62 hours 30 mins; November 04, 2023

Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

58 mins; November 04, 2023

Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; November 04, 2023

Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader

27 mins; November 03, 2023

"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)

52 mins; November 02, 2023

Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)

41 mins; November 02, 2023

Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

70 hours 57 mins; November 01, 2023

Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

40 mins; October 31, 2023

Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

77 hours 47 mins; October 30, 2023

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 30, 2023

Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 3: The Language

27 mins; October 30, 2023

James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

70 hours 57 mins; October 29, 2023

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

74 hours 56 mins; October 29, 2023

Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

53 mins; October 29, 2023

Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)

72 hours 36 mins; October 29, 2023

Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)

73 hours 32 mins; October 28, 2023

Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)

58 mins; October 27, 2023

Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)

75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023

Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)

35 mins; October 26, 2023

Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

52 mins; October 25, 2023

Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)

36 mins; October 24, 2023

David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 23, 2023

Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions

23 mins; October 23, 2023

Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)

55 mins; October 21, 2023

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023

What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington

39 mins; October 19, 2023

Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)

39 mins; October 19, 2023

Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)

37 mins; October 18, 2023

Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

39 mins; October 18, 2023

Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

64 hours 31 mins; October 17, 2023

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