New Books in Literary Studies
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Taking Apart a Metaphor: Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette on the Literary Ecosystem
Oct 22, 202631 min
In Praise of Agnes Heller (1929-2019)
Oct 22, 202613 min
Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh (Syracuse UP, 2026)
Oct 21, 202636 min
Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia with Ali Altaf Mian (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Oct 18, 20261h 12m
American Flash Fiction: Brilliant Brevities & Miniature Masterpieces
Oct 18, 202659 min
Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women with Eleanor Johnson (Princeton UP, 2026)
Oct 17, 20261h 1m
Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Oct 17, 202647 min
Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture with Matthew Warner Osborn (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Oct 17, 202638 min
An Alaṅkāra Reader: Classical Indian Poetics with Yigal Bronner (Columbia UP, 2026)
Oct 15, 202642 min
Realism After the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel with Rafael Walker (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 12, 20261h 6m
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Oct 9, 202657 min
David Bentley Hart on Life, Literature, and Baseball (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Oct 9, 20261h 12m
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing with Katherine L. Alexander (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Oct 9, 20261h 1m
11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
Oct 8, 202638 min
The Examination of Religion (Dharmaparīkṣā): A Jain Tradition of Narrative Adaptations with Heleen De Jonckheere (Brill, 2026)
Oct 8, 202633 min
Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles with Carol Loeb Shloss
Oct 6, 202631 min
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion
Oct 4, 202648 min
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Oct 1, 202645 min
Ilan Stavans on Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation
Sep 30, 202629 min
Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026)
Sep 27, 202650 min
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing with Marion Quirici (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Sep 27, 202650 min
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities with yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (U Virginia Press, 2026)
Sep 26, 202646 min
Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies with Yinghui Wu (Brill, 2025)
Sep 25, 20261h 9m
Emmy Waldman, "Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Sep 24, 202643 min
Tess Chakkalakal, "A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Sep 23, 20261h 0m
Nathan Wainstein, "Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel" (JHU Press, 2026)
Sep 23, 202657 min
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
Sep 22, 202642 min
Exploring Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Fantasy Masterpiece
Sep 20, 202657 min
Tamara Hundorova, "Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Sep 19, 202646 min
Xiaofei Tian, "Writing Empire and Self: Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Sep 19, 202657 min
Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)
Sep 15, 202642 min
Christopher Freeburg, "Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life" (Yale UP, 2026)
Sep 11, 202646 min
A Nation Wrestles With God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands
Sep 10, 20261h 15m
Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)
Sep 9, 202658 min
Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
Sep 8, 202644 min
Jonathan Swift and David Womersley ed., "Gulliver's Travels: Cambridge Anniversary Edition" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Sep 7, 202643 min
Agnes Mueller, "Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Sep 5, 202653 min
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
Sep 2, 20261h 2m
Aonghus MacKechnie, "Edinburgh: City of Romanticism" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Sep 1, 202651 min
María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 202639 min
Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 20261h 15m
Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Aug 29, 202659 min
Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies
Aug 25, 20261h 8m
Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026)
Aug 24, 202656 min
Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 24, 20261h 29m
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 22, 202643 min
Emily Sibley, "The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Aug 20, 202639 min
Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 15, 202650 min
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
Aug 15, 202633 min
Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
Aug 14, 202658 min