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Arts
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Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Think...
An interview with Roland Allen
56 min
627
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black L...
An interview with Rebecca Turkewitz
33 min
628
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands:...
An interview with Amanda Kennell
42 min
629
Plot
An Discussion with Pardis Dabashi
17 min
630
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
A Discussion with Miriam Kalman Friedman
57 min
631
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon...
An interview with Kyle Dillon Hertz
36 min
632
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
An interview with Patrick Ffrench
71 min
633
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, Histor...
An interview with Craig Keener
38 min
634
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reim...
An interview with Timothy K. August
38 min
635
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
An interview with Lexi Freiman
34 min
636
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy o...
Once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality?
44 min
637
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Wit...
An interview with Joseph Vogel
37 min
638
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, ...
McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...
56 min
639
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall ...
An interview with Edward J. Watts
62 min
640
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitute...
An interview with Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki
64 min
641
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....
50 min
642
Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Time...
An interview with Daniel Shank Cruz
43 min
643
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa...
An interview with George MacLeod
75 min
644
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writi...
An interview with Thomas Kelly
92 min
645
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
An interview with Eliza Minot
37 min
646
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outla...
An interview with Anne E. Linton
58 min
647
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Trans...
An interview with Olga V. Solovieva
30 min
648
Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Et...
An interview with Trent Masiki
32 min
649
Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
An interview with Pardis Mahdavi
29 min
650
Saving the Brontë Birthplace
Christa Ackroyd and Steve Stanworth, in conversation with Duncan McCargo
27 min