Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and c
Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writi
Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they’re not? For the individuals involved—from
In Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital (Ohio State UP, 2020), Marco Codebò
The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal (Bloomsbury,
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent time
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shift
Chrysta Bilton is an American writer who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. Her
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton UP, 2022) is a captivati
Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her
In the early 20th century, Europe and North America were undergoing a radical transformation. Scient
Humans love stories. And no collection of stories is more beloved worldwide than the Middle Eastern
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi
The writer and activist James Baldwin grew up in a majority white America that saw white American li
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021) argues that the reinterp
The Victorian era is known for its class rigidity and moral strictness. In her 1847 novel Jane Eyre,
A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a c
Meg Howrey is the author of the novels They're Going to Love You, The Cranes Dance, and Blind Sight.
“Soft sci-fi, gothic body horror” is how Hiron Ennes describes their debut novel, Leech (Tordotcom,
