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Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaa...
In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write...
65 min
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Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Afri...
Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...
76 min
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Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
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Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Commu...
Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...
45 min
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Bradley Lewis, "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stori...
Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease...
46 min
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Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
54 min
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Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Y...
Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...
57 min
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Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
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Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the M...
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...
42 min
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Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
50 min
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C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on t...
Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....
46 min
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
60 min
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Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Explorat...
This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...
33 min
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Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
76 min
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
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Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocau...
Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...
68 min
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman...
Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...
52 min
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Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min
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David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and...
This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...
69 min
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Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Liv...
Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...
32 min
2171
Frederik H. Green, "Bird Talk and Other Stories...
Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...
66 min
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Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...
102 min
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Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experienc...
Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...
63 min
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Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics...
45 min
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Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskr...
Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...
55 min