New Books in Literary Studies
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“O Albany”: Novelist William Kennedy on His Great Cycle of the City
Jun 28, 2026
John K. Roth, "Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times" (Wipf and Stock, 2026)
Jun 26, 20261h 6m
What Running Your Own Imprint for 15 Years Teaches You about Books, Readers, and Risk with Sarah Crichton
Jun 24, 202624 min
Christina Williams "Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Jun 23, 202637 min
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jun 21, 202657 min
Alexander Vandewalle, "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jun 18, 202654 min
Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
Jun 18, 202643 min
173* Novel Dialogue Crossover: Aaron Gwyn goes West (Sean McCann, JP)
Jun 18, 202647 min
The Legacy of Chaim Grade
Jun 13, 2026
Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 12, 20261h 3m
Jeffrey R. Di Leo et al. eds., "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jun 12, 202633 min
Islam in English
Jun 10, 202636 min
Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Jun 7, 202644 min
Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)
Jun 5, 202637 min
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 5, 202639 min
Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)
Jun 4, 202654 min
Kenna Neitch, "A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism" (SUNY Press, 2026)
Jun 1, 202646 min
Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
May 28, 20261h 6m
What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
May 26, 202655 min
chaun webster, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" (Greywolf, 2026)
May 26, 2026
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
May 26, 20261h 14m
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
May 25, 20263 min
Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)
May 23, 202648 min
Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
May 21, 20261h 16m
The Novel as Instrument: Sinan Antoon and Michael Allan (MAT)
May 21, 202646 min
Elizabeth Bradfield's Books in Dark Times (JP)
May 21, 202630 min
Marissa Nicosia, "Shakespeare in the Kitchen" (Routledge, 2026)
May 19, 202648 min
Sumana Roy, "Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 19, 202641 min
Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
May 18, 20261h 29m
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
Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025)
May 10, 202643 min
Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
May 10, 202646 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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Apr 20, 202619 min