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Arts
701
Plot
An Discussion with Pardis Dabashi
17 min
702
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
A Discussion with Miriam Kalman Friedman
57 min
703
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands:...
An interview with Amanda Kennell
42 min
704
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon...
An interview with Kyle Dillon Hertz
36 min
705
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
An interview with Patrick Ffrench
71 min
706
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, Histor...
An interview with Craig Keener
38 min
707
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reim...
An interview with Timothy K. August
38 min
708
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
An interview with Lexi Freiman
34 min
709
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
710
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Wit...
An interview with Joseph Vogel
37 min
711
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
712
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitute...
An interview with Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki
64 min
713
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall ...
An interview with Edward J. Watts
62 min
714
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
715
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa...
An interview with George MacLeod
75 min
716
Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Time...
An interview with Daniel Shank Cruz
43 min
717
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writi...
An interview with Thomas Kelly
92 min
718
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
An interview with Eliza Minot
37 min
719
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Trans...
An interview with Olga V. Solovieva
30 min
720
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outla...
An interview with Anne E. Linton
58 min
721
Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Et...
An interview with Trent Masiki
32 min
722
Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
An interview with Pardis Mahdavi
29 min
723
Jonathan Kramnick, "Criticism and Truth: On Met...
An interview with Jonathan Kramnick
44 min
724
Saving the Brontë Birthplace
Christa Ackroyd and Steve Stanworth, in conversation with Duncan McCargo
27 min
725
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: ...
An interview with Gary Saul Morson
46 min