New Books in Literary Studies

2428 Episodes

1. Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/14/2025
2. Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/13/2025
3. Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 5/11/2025
4. Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/10/2025
5. “That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)

   Published: 5/9/2025
6. Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/8/2025
7. Nothingism

   Published: 5/6/2025
8. Robin Miles: Talking Books

   Published: 5/5/2025
9. Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)

   Published: 5/4/2025
10. Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)

    Published: 5/2/2025
11. Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/30/2025
12. Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/29/2025
13. Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 4/27/2025
14. Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)

    Published: 4/26/2025
15. Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)

    Published: 4/24/2025
16. Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)

    Published: 4/23/2025
17. Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/23/2025
18. Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 4/22/2025
19. Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/20/2025
20. Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron

    Published: 4/18/2025