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In this conversation, we discuss Haleh Liza Gafori's masterful new translations of poetry by Rumi, t
Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Fie
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Bere
George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Douglas K
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of
This conversation is with Brett Wilson, who has composed the first English translation of the classi
On today’s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of
In Part 3, Professor Michael Dobson offers close-readings of some of the play’s most important speec
Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from
Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of S
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Ford
Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depressio
Part 2 focuses on the play’s key interpretive questions: how we are invited to judge the central cha
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadett
Born in central Tokyo in 1920, Rin Ishigaki was one of the most daring and gifted poets of Japan’s p
In this episode, I was joined by Nicholas Scott Baker to discuss his book, In Fortune’s Theater: Fin
In 1856, the East India Company imposed the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act, allowing widows to remarry a
U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emoti
