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What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned cri
In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mo
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlem
Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy asse
In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Ian Almond about his work in world literature, including his
Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s writings have greatly influenced Persian Sufism, but what do we know of him as
Dalpat Rajpurohit's book Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry (Raj
Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the imp
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of Englis
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Storie
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvani
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli liter
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts
In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Germa
"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand wa
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