Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
Episode 115
Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of li…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Episode 2
Jessica Romney's book Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece (U Michigan Press, 2020) examines how Greek men presented themselves and the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Episode 1401
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerfu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Episode 114
The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Episode 143
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese li…
2 years, 5 months ago
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Episode 154
Why did the New York Public Library ban a novel about women’s independence? What was the Human Potential Movement? And who was Claire Myers Owens?
Tod…
2 years, 5 months ago
Plot
Episode 137
In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simp…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Episode 113
Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled…
2 years, 5 months ago
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 73
Suspicious of what he called the spectator's "sticky" adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a …
2 years, 5 months ago
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
Episode 69
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable? The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus’s life. The authors of these…
2 years, 6 months ago