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Arts
1251
On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
A Discussion with Reginald Jackson
26 min
1252
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: Fro...
An interview with Sanjay Krishnan
28 min
1253
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
A Discussion with John Hamilton
33 min
1254
Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke
An interview with Carlos Rojas
43 min
1255
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
A Discussion with John Hamilton
33 min
1256
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of In...
An interview with Alexander Key
25 min
1257
Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Peng...
An interview with Celeste Ng
38 min
1258
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval ...
An interview with Natalie J. Goodison
49 min
1259
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek...
An interview with Sarah F. Derbew
61 min
1260
Clothes in Literature: A Talk by Anne Hollander
24 min
1261
Jane Satterfield, "Letter to Emily Brontë," The...
An interview with Jane Satterfield
39 min
1262
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (D...
An interview with Jean-Thomas Tremblay
60 min
1263
Peter Coviello, "Vineland Reread" (Columbia UP,...
An interview with Peter Coviello
52 min
1264
On Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"
A Discussion with David Bellos
28 min
1265
Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Qua...
An interview with Ryan Holmberg
48 min
1266
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebit...
An interview with Kathryn Harkup
34 min
1267
On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
A Discussion with David Alworth
31 min
1268
Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Liter...
An interview with Neilesh Bose
35 min
1269
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Dec...
An interview with Peter J. Kalliney
52 min
1270
NBN Classic: Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Di...
Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition...
53 min
1271
NBN Classic: Kas Saghafi, "The World after the ...
An interview with Kas Saghafi
66 min
1272
NBN Classic: Great Books: Manthia Diawara on Ac...
Chinua Achebe's 1958 Things Fall Apart transformed the world by vividly imagining the story of an African community in English...
36 min
1273
NBN Classic: Great Books: Carol Gilligan on Nat...
The Scarlet Letter tells the dramatic story of a woman cast out of society for adultery and condemned to wear a badge of shame in Puritan New England...
71 min
1274
Olga Melnyk, "Ship Life: Seven Months of Volunt...
An interview with Olga Melnyk
38 min
1275
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: ...
A Conversation with Vibeke Børdahl
27 min