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Episode 51
If you are reading this, it’s probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—without print, books, newspapers, signs, graffiti, a…
2 years, 8 months ago
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 415
A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and crit…
2 years, 8 months ago
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 37
A full transcript of the interview is available for accessibility.
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez's Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)
Episode 40
Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the weird Thoreau”, Jeff VanderMeer, and a scholar o…
2 years, 8 months ago
John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
Episode 114
John Guillory (NYU English author of the pathbreaking Cultural Capital) is here to discuss his amazing new Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
Episode 129
Tom Boomershine, one of the pioneers of performance criticism for biblical texts, joined the New Books Network to discuss the publication of First-Ce…
2 years, 8 months ago
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
Episode 66
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters pro…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Season 1 Episode 40
With Professor Simon Palfrey, Part 2 looks closely at the play’s characters, and especially at the intelligence and swiftness of Juliet. You’ll see h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
Episode 256
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 1365
Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the United States shows how artists, intellectuals, an…
2 years, 9 months ago