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Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; October 16, 2023
Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
45 mins; October 14, 2023
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19 mins; October 13, 2023
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
67 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2023
Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
48 mins; October 11, 2023
Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
65 hours 59 mins; October 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 3: The Language
31 mins; October 09, 2023
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
56 mins; October 08, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
52 mins; October 07, 2023
Books in Early Modern Europe
63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2023
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
56 mins; October 06, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
66 hours 18 mins; October 06, 2023
Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)
41 mins; October 05, 2023
John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
41 mins; October 05, 2023
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
138 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2023
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
51 mins; October 03, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
21 mins; October 02, 2023
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
44 mins; October 01, 2023
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
44 mins; September 30, 2023
Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
50 mins; September 29, 2023
Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
65 hours 25 mins; September 27, 2023
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
48 mins; September 27, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
57 mins; September 26, 2023
Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
91 hours 2 mins; September 26, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
56 mins; September 26, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; September 25, 2023
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
41 mins; September 25, 2023
Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
45 mins; September 24, 2023
The Secret History of the Mongols
62 hours 55 mins; September 24, 2023
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 23, 2023
Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)
34 mins; September 22, 2023
Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
24 mins; September 21, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
52 mins; September 21, 2023
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
35 mins; September 19, 2023
Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
56 mins; September 18, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
35 mins; September 18, 2023
Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
60 hours 49 mins; September 16, 2023
Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
74 hours 22 mins; September 16, 2023
Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
81 hours 53 mins; September 15, 2023
Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
51 mins; September 15, 2023
Dženita Karić, "Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 15, 2023
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; September 14, 2023
Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
71 hours 12 mins; September 12, 2023
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
62 hours 51 mins; September 12, 2023
Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
61 hours 8 mins; September 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; September 11, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
70 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023
Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 10, 2023
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 35 mins; September 10, 2023
L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
59 mins; September 09, 2023
Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
50 mins; September 07, 2023
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; September 06, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 06, 2023
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 1: The Story
24 mins; September 04, 2023
On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"
60 hours 6 mins; September 02, 2023
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
55 mins; September 02, 2023
Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
48 mins; September 01, 2023
Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
96 hours 49 mins; September 01, 2023
Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
76 hours 14 mins; August 29, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 3: The Language
27 mins; August 28, 2023
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
69 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2023
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
108 hours 12 mins; August 27, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
110 hours 37 mins; August 27, 2023
Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
94 hours 29 mins; August 26, 2023
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
91 hours 47 mins; August 25, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 25, 2023
On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia
52 mins; August 24, 2023
Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
101 hours 40 mins; August 24, 2023
Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
42 mins; August 22, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; August 21, 2023
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
49 mins; August 20, 2023
Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
57 mins; August 19, 2023
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
107 hours 46 mins; August 18, 2023
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
86 hours 43 mins; August 17, 2023
Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond (JP)
28 mins; August 17, 2023
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
52 mins; August 16, 2023
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
50 mins; August 15, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; August 14, 2023
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
22 mins; August 14, 2023
Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)
113 hours 44 mins; August 14, 2023
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; August 13, 2023
Book Chat with Gwennaël Gaffric
31 mins; August 13, 2023
Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
48 mins; August 12, 2023
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
78 hours 50 mins; August 11, 2023
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
34 mins; August 11, 2023
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 08, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
30 mins; August 07, 2023
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
52 mins; August 04, 2023
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
14 mins; August 04, 2023
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
48 mins; August 03, 2023
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
46 mins; August 01, 2023
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
52 mins; July 31, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
27 mins; July 31, 2023
Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; July 29, 2023
Raquel Gutiérrez, "Brown Neon" (Coffee House Press, 2022)
42 mins; July 28, 2023
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
57 mins; July 28, 2023
Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 27, 2023
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