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Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping (Ecco Press, 2023) probes the loyalties we hold: to relativ
Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-ti
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential po
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare
In this episode of High Theory, Geoffrey Sanborn tells us about Plagiarism. A concept emerged with t
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of
Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave
In The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2023), Jennifer
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digita
This episode, which is co-hosted with Michael Nishimura, features a conversation with Dr. Diane C. F
Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when
In Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Ian Smith urge
Earlier this month, Toho Studios released “Godzilla Minus One”—the 37th film in the now almost seven
Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and v
Part 3 starts with a discussion of general reading strategies to help you discover the poetic techni
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large pa
Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2017) explores ou
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in
Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from
