New Books in Literary Studies

2546 Episodes

1. Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 10/24/2025
2. Kathryn Robson, "Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

   Published: 10/22/2025
3. Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (U Alberta Press, 2025)

   Published: 10/22/2025
4. Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)

   Published: 10/21/2025
5. Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)

   Published: 10/21/2025
6. Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)

   Published: 10/20/2025
7. Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)

   Published: 10/19/2025
8. Cassandra S. Tully de Lope, "Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 10/14/2025
9. Utopia is Boring with Evie Kendal

   Published: 10/14/2025
10. Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),

    Published: 10/11/2025
11. Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 10/11/2025
12. Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

    Published: 10/8/2025
13. Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 10/7/2025
14. Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)

    Published: 10/5/2025
15. Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

    Published: 10/2/2025
16. 157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)

    Published: 10/2/2025
17. Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

    Published: 10/1/2025
18. Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell eds., "Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 9/30/2025
19. Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/29/2025
20. Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

    Published: 9/27/2025