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Arts
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Decolonizing the Novum
21 min
27
Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “T...
42 min
28
Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Refle...
62 min
29
Fiction’s Lost Ambition with Writer Sam Kahn
55 min
30
Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)
57 min
31
Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Sce...
79 min
32
Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Lit...
34 min
33
Eleanor Houghton, "Charlotte Brontë's Life in C...
27 min
34
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Verna...
32 min
35
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in...
66 min
36
Pre-Reading
19 min
37
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African ...
58 min
38
Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the ...
33 min
39
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go U...
48 min
40
John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice ...
35 min
41
10.2 Beautiful Sentences Matter. Billy-Ray Belc...
41 min
42
S. D. Ellison, "Hope for a New David in the Psa...
31 min
43
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Ale...
63 min
44
Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets an...
36 min
45
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minneso...
23 min
46
Prolepsis
15 min
47
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The L...
72 min
48
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Pr...
41 min
49
Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Wi...
58 min
50
Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe, "Supernatural Japan:...
30 min