Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 319
All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a “bastard” son, an aunt who is a prostit…
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David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 136
Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the r…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Season 1 Episode 43
With Professor Laurie Maguire, Part 2 explores the play’s many ambiguities — its uncertain geography, mental space, and genre — and how they reflect …
2 years, 8 months ago
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Episode 177
In the October 12, 2023 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg offered an annotated list of the 100 greatest film books of all time. Drawing…
2 years, 8 months ago
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 151
In The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde (Duke UP, 2023), Grant Kester examines the evolving discourse of …
2 years, 8 months ago
What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
Episode 41
Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation about…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
Episode 115
John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new boo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Episode 1371
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits …
2 years, 8 months ago
Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Episode 238
Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable l…
2 years, 8 months ago
Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Episode 253
In Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2023), Livia Arndal Woods traces the connections between literary treatments of pre…
2 years, 8 months ago