Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturali
How does the past live on within our experience of the present? And how does our decision to speak a
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost politi
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales whic
Through an original framework of literary sensory studies, Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Colu
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family b
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distributio
Stephanie Bastek has been with The American Scholar for 10 years, where she is now senior editor. Sh
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of
Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly makes time for Irish literature maven Paige Reyn
Seamus O’Malley is an associate professor at Yeshiva University. His first book was Making History N
Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 202
Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past,' Drawing from the
In Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation (U California Press, 2024), Em
Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “pro
During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-An
Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for think
When I decided to try my hand at interviewing authors for the New Books Network, one of my dream gue
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the glob
