Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
Season 1 Episode 27
Henry V is one of the most celebrated of Shakespeare’s history plays. In the 1590s, Shakespeare wrote a series of eight plays based on English chroni…
2 years, 11 months ago
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 66
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (Princeton UP, 2023) invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Tho…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Episode 116
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustibl…
2 years, 11 months ago
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
Episode 115
Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde movements, was born Samuel Rosenstock (or Samueli…
2 years, 11 months ago
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
Episode 93
Ada--a woman from Montreal living reluctantly in Michigan--vanishes from her bed one night while her husband Danny is asleep beside her, her young so…
3 years ago
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
Season 1 Episode 26
In Part 3, Professor Tiffany Stern offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant speeches. You’ll discover the surprising biblical res…
3 years ago
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 106
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damage…
3 years ago
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Episode 63
Lena Henningsen’s Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) is a study of shoucha…
3 years ago
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
Episode 193
Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The wo…
3 years ago
The Environmental Unconscious
Episode 121
Steven Swarbrick talks about poetic engagement with nature in the work of early modern poets Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and Joh…
3 years ago