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Back to SearchTimothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
Episode 75
In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timothy K. August centers Southeast Asian American wri…
2 years, 6 months ago
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Episode 8
The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the period some historians identify as the beginning of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
Episode 113
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 2023) follows a writer from …
2 years, 6 months ago
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Episode 125
When teaching a public course called “The Age of Debt” this winter break, I had the strange realization that one of the the most successful readings …
2 years, 6 months ago
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Episode 158
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in…
2 years, 6 months ago
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Episode 191
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in H…
2 years, 6 months ago
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 1398
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology…
2 years, 6 months ago
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 1
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long a…
2 years, 6 months ago
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 126
George MacLeod's book Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War (U Nebraska Press, 2023) explore…
2 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Episode 271
Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State UP, 2023) is about the role literature can play in helpin…
2 years, 6 months ago