Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

113 Episodes

1. The Tyranny of the Good in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters”

   Published: 11/6/2023
2. Odysseus and Penelope’s Comedy of Remarriage (“The Odyssey,” Postscript to Part 3)

   Published: 10/30/2023
3. Terminal Wooings in “The Odyssey” (Part 3 of 3)

   Published: 10/23/2023
4. Foolish Adventures in “The Odyssey” (Part 2 of 3)

   Published: 9/25/2023
5. Home as Identity in “The Odyssey”

   Published: 8/28/2023
6. Competing Affections in “The Lion in Winter”

   Published: 7/31/2023
7. Friendship and Honor in “Becket” (1964)

   Published: 7/3/2023
8. Losing Your Head in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away”

   Published: 6/5/2023
9. Time and Taboo in “Back to the Future” (1985)

   Published: 5/16/2023
10. The Violence of Redemption in John Donne’s “Batter My Heart” (Holy Sonnet 14)

    Published: 4/10/2023
11. Mortal Pretensions in John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet 10)

    Published: 3/13/2023
12. Trauma and Repetition in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974)

    Published: 2/13/2023
13. Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

    Published: 1/16/2023
14. Pagan Poetics in “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

    Published: 12/19/2022
15. Production for Use in “His Girl Friday”

    Published: 11/21/2022
16. Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”

    Published: 10/24/2022
17. Fate and Blame in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

    Published: 9/26/2022
18. Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)

    Published: 5/9/2022
19. What Falls Upon the Living in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

    Published: 4/11/2022
20. Finding Home in Stephen Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982)

    Published: 3/14/2022