Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films
A podcast by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh - Mondays
113 Episodes
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Worrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate”
Published: 10/5/2020 -
Slouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2
Published: 9/28/2020 -
Things Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1
Published: 9/21/2020 -
Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”
Published: 9/14/2020 -
The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Published: 9/7/2020 -
The Acceptance of Mortality in Keats’s To Autumn
Published: 8/31/2020 -
Escape into Art in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
Published: 8/24/2020 -
Truth as Beauty in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn
Published: 8/17/2020 -
Mastery and Repetition in Groundhog Day
Published: 8/10/2020 -
Love and Wit in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Published: 8/4/2020 -
(post)script: Debut
Published: 8/1/2020 -
Expediency and Intimacy in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment
Published: 7/27/2020 -
Marital Economics in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Published: 7/20/2020
Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.