Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPsychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Episode 241
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth…
1 year, 8 months ago
V. Domontovych, "On Shaky Ground" (CEU Press, 2024)
Episode 17
In this episode host, Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Oksana Rosenblum, the translator of the new addition to our CEU Press Classics series…
1 year, 8 months ago
P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
Episode 17
P. Djèlí Clark is the author of acclaimed and award-winning speculative fiction, including the much-loved Dead Djinn universe books, Ring Shout, and …
1 year, 8 months ago
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 82
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellect…
1 year, 8 months ago
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 72
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and …
1 year, 8 months ago
Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
Episode 117
The 13 essays collected in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium (Mythopoeic Press, 2024) foregr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 545
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature bec…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 245
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Ki…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)
Episode 52
What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro movements of capital and labor still exist in the fo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Episode 64
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster su…
1 year, 8 months ago