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Back to SearchSarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
People who lie down are a fixture of contemporary literature, art, and life. Murder victims, protesters, invalids, depressives, sex workers, and more…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Episode 18
Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2025) explores literary texts tha…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 53
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 142
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her con…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 376
Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Miriam Udel, "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 705
As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas J. Mazanec, "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 184
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of m…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Episode 177
In the October 12, 2023 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg offered an annotated list of the 100 greatest film books of all time. Drawing…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War (University of Toronto Press, 20…
5 months, 3 weeks ago