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Ruth Vanita's book The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics (Oxford UP, 2021) shows that many cha
Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the vi
In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, give
Today Jana Byars talks to her PhD advisor Guido Ruggiero about his latest monograph, Love and Sex in
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancie
When H.G. Wells was growing up in England in the 1860s, science wasn’t part of education or everyday
Kayla Maiuri holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Born in the greater Boston ar
In Aquaman and the War against Oceans (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Ryan Poll explores ways
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes c
In 1818, the East India Company defeated the Maratha confederacy, acquiring vast domains in central
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke UP, 2019), Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship bet
Sometime around 450 BC in ancient Greece, a young Thucydides went with his father to hear the histor
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid clima
Today I talked to Kevin Wilson about his new novel Now Is Not the Time to Panic (Ecco Press, 2022).K
In 1987, Toni Morrison published her fourth novel, Beloved, based on the story of Margaret Garner, a
Beginning in the 17th century, European countries began colonizing countries east of Europe. They im
How do women balance feminist identities whilst being science fiction fans? In Women Negotiating Fem
Today I talked to Lydia Millet about her new novel Dinosaurs (Norton, 2022).Lydia Millet has written
As a young student at Christ’s College Cambridge, John Milton announced to the world that he was goi
Today’s guest, Erin Webster, is the author of The Curious Eye: Optics and Literature in Early Modern
