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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a sh
In this episode, our host Sim Gill discusses the book Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dyna
Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanya
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of B
Swati Moitra explains how reading can be a subversive and even revolutionary act in certain socio-hi
The Western as a genre is alive and vibrant, argues University of Maine - Farmington professor of En
The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the e
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches (Lexin
"In other words, like David Foster Wallace — who celebrates McCain for his display of “‘moral author
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies. It is also his most daring ex
Alexander Jabbari’s The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran a
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious n
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production.
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter (British Library, 2022) looks at threats to forest life ac
Matthew Mewhinney's Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) explore
Today I talked to the translators of Marianna Kiyanovska's The Voices of Babyn Yar (HURI, 2022), Max
Feeling is not “feelin”. Feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists
Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting d
"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversat
