Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
Traversing teeming metropolises and tiny towns, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Random House, 2025) explores these spaces, c…
11 months, 1 week ago
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Superhero violence and graphic action sequences are prevalent on the screen and on the page, but this book takes an alternative route with practical …
11 months, 1 week ago
John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Bringing John McGahern's 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critica…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Episode 88
The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame
Offers an anatomy of Irish shame as a cultural predicament Comb…11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilani…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
My guest today is Jyotsna Singh, Professor Emerita of English at Michigan State University. She has written numerous books including Colonial Narrati…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)
At the start of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based on his daughters' professions of love, but portions it o…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
The year 1925 was arguably the peak of literature's centrality. There were more magazines, more journals, more reviews, more book news, and more book…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, draw…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature.
Medieval literature is full of strange moments wh…
11 months, 3 weeks ago