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"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversat
Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought to
In 1941, Dorothy Sayers, Christian apologist, author of The Mind of the Maker, and even more famous
There is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into th
Hope Williard's book Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contempora
What are the "great books"? What makes them great? Is the cultivation of an intellectual life especi
Patrick Bixby's book Nietzsche and Irish Modernism (Manchester UP, 2022) demonstrates how the ideas
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most concentrated and thrilling tragedies. Macbeth is a warrior lord
Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity (Liverpool UP, 2022) by Dr. Ros
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and
Two perceptions about wolves are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the sup
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the
The purpose of the present volume, Dindshenchas Érenn (U College Cork, 2022), is to provide an acces
Dr. Joyce Kinkead, Distinguished Professor of English at Utah State University discusses her recent
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta Books, 2022) travels with Roth from his childhood in
In Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Duke UP, 2021), Jill Jarvis examines
This episode of High Theory is based upon a conference paper Saronik and Kim wrote for the American
The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their exi
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illust
