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New Books in Literary Studies

New Books in Literary Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books

New Books Network

2,672 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Literary Studies has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 2,672 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to over 2300 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 97 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 503 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,672
Running
2010–2026 · 16y
Median length
53 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

David Eisler, "Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present" (U Iowa Press, 2022)

May 17, 20261h 16m

Jue Liang, "Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 15, 20261h 18m

Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)

May 14, 202653 min

Martin Munro and Eliana Vagalau eds., "Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader's Guide" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

May 14, 202636 min

Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word

May 10, 202646 min

Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025)

May 10, 202643 min

Place Presents Itself To You in Fragments: Ivan Vladislavić and Jeanne-Marie Jackson (MAT)

May 7, 202642 min

Ana I. Oancea, "Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

May 6, 20261h 3m

Frontier Films for America250: On the Western Genre and Beyond with Matthew J. Franck

May 6, 2026

Christopher Cusack et al. eds., "The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

May 5, 202654 min

Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

May 4, 202652 min

David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea" (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)

May 2, 20261h 7m

Andrea Horbinski, "Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989" (U California Press, 2025)

Apr 30, 202650 min

David Womersley, "Thinking Through Shakespeare" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Apr 28, 20261h 1m

Tiffany Jo Werth, "The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 25, 202646 min

Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon, "Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis" (NYU Press, 2026)

Apr 25, 202644 min

Vin Nardizzi, "Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Apr 24, 20261h 42m

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Apr 23, 202655 min

Francis Young, "Fairies: A History" (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)

Apr 21, 202640 min

Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Apr 20, 20261h 2m
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