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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
2023/9/30

“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that

Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
2023/9/27

What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
2023/9/27

Debapriya Sarkar’s new book, titled Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (

Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
2023/9/26

Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar's Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art 

Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
2023/9/26

Michael Kochenash published his revised dissertation from Claremont School of Theology as Roman Self

Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
2023/9/26

A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolut

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
2023/9/25

Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (C

Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
2023/9/25

Children of families who are locked in a fatal feud, Romeo and Juliet risk community, identity, and

The Secret History of the Mongols
2023/9/24

The Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world. Writing in the thirte

Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
2023/9/24

Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of

Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
2023/9/23

Tracy Rutler's Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literatur

Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)
2023/9/22

In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books)

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
2023/9/21

Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Stud

Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
2023/9/21

We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novel

David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
2023/9/19

Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
2023/9/18

Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
2023/9/18

Deanne Williams's newest book, Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Peda

Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
2023/9/18

In Part 3, Professor Emma Smith offers close-readings of some of the play’s most important scenes, w

Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
2023/9/16

Ainsley Morse's book Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature (Northwestern U

Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
2023/9/16

Today’s guest is Edgar Garcia. Garcia’s new book Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisi