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Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such a
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a ca
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's midtown office a
A wordsmith, an extempore poet and a satirist, Kāḷamēkam (also known as Kāḷamēka Pulavar; fifteenth
Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Col
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man wa
In this episode host, Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Oksana Rosenblum, the translator of
P. Djèlí Clark is the author of acclaimed and award-winning speculative fiction, including the much-
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women
The 13 essays collected in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolk
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 202
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Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Mar
What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro mov
In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller an
You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here.Linda Schlossberg, aut
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tel
Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explor
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on F
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary C
