SUBTEXT Literature and Film Podcast

A podcast by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh - Mondays

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102 Episodes

  1. Yielding to Suggestion in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”

    Published: 2/1/2021
  2. Clever Hopes in W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”

    Published: 1/18/2021
  3. The “Human Position” of Suffering in W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”

    Published: 1/4/2021
  4. Mutual Amusement in “The Awful Truth” (1937)

    Published: 12/21/2020
  5. Against Specialization in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”

    Published: 12/7/2020
  6. Kill Billy: Order and Innocence in Melville’s “Billy Budd”

    Published: 11/23/2020
  7. (post)script: Post-Gatsby

    Published: 11/16/2020
  8. The American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”

    Published: 11/9/2020
  9. Being Yourself in John Cassavetes’s “A Woman Under the Influence”

    Published: 10/26/2020
  10. Worrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate”

    Published: 10/5/2020
  11. Slouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2

    Published: 9/28/2020
  12. Things Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1

    Published: 9/21/2020
  13. Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

    Published: 9/14/2020
  14. The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s Rear Window

    Published: 9/7/2020
  15. The Acceptance of Mortality in Keats’s To Autumn

    Published: 8/31/2020
  16. Escape into Art in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

    Published: 8/24/2020
  17. Truth as Beauty in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn

    Published: 8/17/2020
  18. Mastery and Repetition in Groundhog Day

    Published: 8/10/2020
  19. Love and Wit in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

    Published: 8/4/2020
  20. (post)script: Debut

    Published: 8/1/2020

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SUBTEXT is a podcast about the human condition, and what we can learn about it from the greatest inventions of the human imagination: fiction, film, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh explore life’s big questions by conducting a close reading of a text or film and co-writing an audio essay about it in real time.