New Books in Literary Studies

2318 Episodes

1. S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor

   Published: 1/8/2025
2. Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

   Published: 1/7/2025
3. Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

   Published: 1/6/2025
4. Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/3/2025
5. I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 1/2/2025
6. Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)

   Published: 1/2/2025
7. James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”

   Published: 12/31/2024
8. Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/30/2024
9. Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/29/2024
10. Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
11. Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2024
12. Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
13. Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

    Published: 12/28/2024
14. James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/28/2024
15. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

    Published: 12/26/2024
16. Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/25/2024
17. Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
18. Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
19. Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
20. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/23/2024