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Back to SearchJudith Jesch, "The Saga of the Earls of Orkney" (Birlinn, 2025)
In The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Birlinn, 2025), Professor Judith Jesch presents a fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was establi…
6 months, 1 week ago
Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)
Episode 238
This episode features a conversation with the inspiring Dr. Veronica House, whose book Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact…
6 months, 1 week ago
Arthur Bahr, "Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 373
A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.
In this book, Arthur…
6 months, 1 week ago
Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)
Waka poetry was all the rage in tenth-century, courtly Japan. Every educated person composed it, emperors and consorts sponsored it, and societal int…
6 months, 1 week ago
Shiben Banerji, "Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy" (U Texas Press, 2025)
War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the tie…
6 months, 1 week ago
Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2024)
Episode 37
This is an unabridged bilingual, fully annotated edition of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic poem The Wretch. This mid-century epic reflects the many historic…
6 months, 1 week ago
Aubrey Gabel, "The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
Episode 158
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and cond…
6 months, 1 week ago
Jonathan Eburne, "Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (U Minnesota Press, 2025) is the latest book by scholar Jonathan P. Eburne, J. H. Hexter Pr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
I’m excited to talk to Carlo Rotella today. Carlo is Professor of English at Boston College. His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End: …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Claire Parnell, "Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2025
The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, they encounter authors who started their careers by self-publishing prior…
6 months, 3 weeks ago