Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
Episode 344
Written by a self-taught grammarian, A Few Words About Words (Beaufort Books, 2021) offers an accessible and engaging guide to mastering the English …
1 year, 2 months ago
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 562
Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930) (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) offers the first detailed account of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 342
African Literature and US Empire Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024) demonstrates how African literature…
1 year, 2 months ago
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual…
1 year, 2 months ago
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 81
Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer…
1 year, 2 months ago
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
Episode 275
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir was published in January 2025 by Icon Books. The book considers the political and psychological d…
1 year, 2 months ago
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Episode 354
Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. He was perhaps best known for his work on poetry a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of …
1 year, 3 months ago
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 539
In Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Julia Jarcho proposes that the desire to write is inextricably boun…
1 year, 3 months ago
9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW)
Episode 59
It’s a bit surprising to hear a writer known for building worlds that incorporate deep historical research and elaborate technological details extol …
1 year, 3 months ago