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Back to SearchDavid Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
Episode 125
In Memoriam: David Ferry (1924-2023)
In this Recall This Book conversation from 2021, poets David Ferry and Roger Reeves talk about lyric, epic, and t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
Episode 321
Shakuntala Gawde's book Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha (Dev Publishers, 2023) presents an analytica…
2 years, 3 months ago
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 286
White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And …
2 years, 3 months ago
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Episode 227
Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Coretta M. Pittman (Univers…
2 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 487
The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Rooseve…
2 years, 3 months ago
Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat, "Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Episode 326
In their edited volume Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media (Syracuse University Press, 2024), Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeena…
2 years, 3 months ago
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 445
What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Anna Kornbluh’s newest book Immediacy, Or the Style …
2 years, 3 months ago
Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 128
Presenting engaging, thought-provoking stories across centuries of military activity, Shakespeare at War: A Material History (Cambridge UP, 2023) dem…
2 years, 3 months ago
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 221
The Life of Padma, or the Paümacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language of the famous Ramayana tale. It was written b…
2 years, 3 months ago
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 159
Kalpavigyan—science fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religio…
2 years, 3 months ago