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The Murder of Andrew Johnson (Forge, 2023) is the third in Burt Solomon’s John Hay Mystery trilogy.
Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their de
Today’s guest is Aaron Kunin, Professor of English at Pomona College. We will discuss two books Aaro
In February 1848, a book auction took place in Astor House, No. 7, on the corner of Broadway and Ves
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak,And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.At the age of 1
In Part 3, Professor Stephen Greenblatt offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant
Vanessa I. Corredera’s book Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh Univ
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette's book Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girl
As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes
First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero
I am joined on “America and Beyond” by historian Peter Fritzsche for an appreciation of The Future o
At a moment when the world has tipped over into irreversible violence and corruption, a divinity con
It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in
Part 2 discusses the play’s central characters, their profound bonds of intimacy and animosity, and
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (U Wales Press, 2022) demonstrates a
Kevin Landis's One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis (Methuen Drama, 2022
Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without imagining hi
John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You
Today’s guest is Ramzi Fawaz, the Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
