New Books in Literary Studies

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Arts
1301
Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Liter...
An interview with Neilesh Bose
35 min
1302
On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
A Discussion with David Alworth
31 min
1303
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Dec...
An interview with Peter J. Kalliney
52 min
1304
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebit...
An interview with Kathryn Harkup
34 min
1305
NBN Classic: Kas Saghafi, "The World after the ...
An interview with Kas Saghafi
66 min
1306
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
1307
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
1308
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
1309
Olga Melnyk, "Ship Life: Seven Months of Volunt...
An interview with Olga Melnyk
38 min
1310
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: ...
A Conversation with Vibeke Børdahl
27 min
1311
Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah...
A Discussion with Boubacar Boris Diop and Sarah Quesada
30 min
1312
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking ...
An interview with Olúfemi Táíwò
61 min
1313
On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"
A Discussion with Mariano Siskind
29 min
1314
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemp...
An interview with Mary J. Magoulick
38 min
1315
Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown...
An interview with Andrew Sean Greer
26 min
1316
On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
A Discussion with Stephanie DeGooyer
33 min
1317
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literar...
An interview with Abby L. Goode
36 min
1318
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From th...
An interview with Andrew Hadfield
65 min
1319
Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2...
An interview with Courtney Zoffness
39 min
1320
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
A Discussion with Robert Pogue Harrison
28 min
1321
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
A Discussion with David Avrom Bell
34 min
1322
89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inha...
44 min
1323
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, ...
An interview with Vauhini Vara
35 min
1324
Michael Ignatieff, "On Consolation: Finding Sol...
An interview with Michael Ignatieff
31 min
1325
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made...
An interview with Sasha Senderovich
85 min