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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled ci
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the ecowriter, Liao Hung-c
In this episode, Martin Erwig show us how we can find computational concepts inside some of our favo
Today I talked to Michelle Chihara, Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Annie Ber
Explore the moral tensions and dilemmas that Shakespeare and George R.R. Martin force their audience
Chaim Grade’s novel, Tsemakh Atlas: Der Yeshivah, was originally published in Yiddish in the late 19
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzlin
Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos edited volume Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingua
In Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature (Ohio State UP, 2022),
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triump
Discover the real-life history that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s history plays, and le
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (Reaktion Books, 2022) is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgr
Let’s talk about zombies! Scholars Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini have produced an engaging and
Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is natura
What is the nature of language? This is the question that Nathan Vedal’s book, The Culture of Langua
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet contains some of the most famous words, images, and characters in all o
At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most kno
Today I talked to Daisy Alpert Florin about her new novel My Last Innocent Year (Henry Holt, 2023).D
