New Books in Literary Studies

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Arts
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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Her...
42 min
102
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
103
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Comin...
54 min
104
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebra...
37 min
105
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to...
44 min
106
John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (...
79 min
107
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckon...
81 min
108
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Relig...
29 min
109
Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial...
69 min
110
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (...
37 min
111
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rar...
66 min
112
Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infa...
40 min
113
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life an...
47 min
114
Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The ...
62 min
115
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
61 min
116
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (T...
28 min
117
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ag...
56 min
118
Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Ma...
46 min
119
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's...
31 min
120
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and C...
44 min
121
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New H...
49 min
122
Eva De Clercq, Heleen De Jonckheere, and Simon ...
64 min
123
Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Aji...
33 min
124
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Cr...
40 min
125
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Lite...
38 min