Podcast Episodes

The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman

Season 6 Episode 73

Your Interpretation is Colonial.

When we turn Zen into a pop-culture vibe or a totem pole into a corporate metaphor, we aren’t learning; we’re commit…

3 months ago

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Words from Nigeria 3 – Emezi’s Pet & Hunters for Truth

Akwaeke Emezi demonstrates how Nigeria’s contemporary writers turn our conceptual realities around. They offer a YA novel that doesn’t condescend, bu…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Words from Nigeria Pt 2: Soyinka’s Tiger & Brother Jero

Why have so few read Soyinka? And can we find hope through his cynical dramas?

I admit I am a victim of the myth-making around me which has made Soyi…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Words from Nigeria Pt 1: Adichie and the Literary Manifesto

 

What sort of literature is this, anyway?

Today we introduce some approaches to Nigerian literature, offer a bevy of African writers, and explore ho…

4 months ago

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Cassandra: Uncertain Steps

 

And what if nobody listens?

Yes, entering our calls for justice into public space carries no small amount of anxiety. And the poster-child for bein…

4 months, 1 week ago

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Writing Back: Letters to Humanity

 

26 Dec 2025

Episode 6.21 –

Writing Back: Letters to Humanity

A different sort of New Year Resolution, moving us from personal improvement to publi…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Great Societies: Lowry’s “The Giver”

 

19 Dec 2025

Episode 6.20 –

The Great Societies: Lowry’s The Giver

Another thorny utopia, Lowry’s Community practices a different kind of strategy …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Great Societies, Pt 2: Metropolis & The Ways of Meaning

 

12 Dec 2025

Episode 6.19 –

The Great Societies, Pt 2: Metropolis & The Ways of Meaning

We finish our discussion of the silent film Metropolis and …

5 months ago

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Is All Art Political? The Great Societies, Pt. 1: Metropolis

 

5 Dec 2025

Episode 6.18 –

Is All Art Political? The Great Societies, Pt. 1: Metropolis

It seems everything is politics these days. But at least ca…

5 months, 1 week ago

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True Horror: Le Guin, Poe, Cavarero, Bataille, and Arendt

 

28 Nov 2025

Episode 6.17 –

True Horror: Le Guin, Poe, Cavarero, Bataille, and Arendt

NOTE: While nothing explicit or graphic is named in this epis…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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