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Back to SearchOmid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 139
It's often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States. That may be the case but popular renderings of the writings of thi…
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Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
Episode 180
In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezu…
10 months ago
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing lif…
10 months, 1 week ago
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors wr…
10 months, 1 week ago
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 172
All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and…
10 months, 1 week ago
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
Episode 515
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from ens…
10 months, 1 week ago
Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
Matthew Sparks and Oliva Sizemore join Jana Byars for a fun, chilling, and thoughtful discussion about about Haint Country: Dark Tales from the Hills…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
Episode 546
For several decades now, Alan Wald has been thoroughly documenting the history of the literature and cultural output of the American left. While his …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
Grant Us Eyes is a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Revi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
Episode 65
With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson has e…
10 months, 3 weeks ago