New Books in Literary Studies
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
Aug 14, 202658 min
Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Aug 12, 202651 min
Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 12, 202657 min
Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Aug 12, 20261h 6m
Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 202649 min
Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 10, 202648 min
Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Aug 7, 202640 min
Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 202650 min
In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship
Aug 6, 202659 min
Sara Pappas, "Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Aug 5, 202641 min
Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
Aug 2, 202651 min
Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
Aug 1, 202631 min
Mikhail Pelevin, "Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times" (Brill, 2025)
Jul 31, 202633 min
Siri Carpenter on Why She Self-Published First — and How It Led to a Traditional Book Deal
Jul 30, 202625 min
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
Jul 30, 202649 min
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Jul 30, 202655 min
Matthew Ritger, "Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Jul 27, 202648 min
Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Jul 26, 202636 min
Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Jul 24, 20261h 7m
Marie Léticée, "Camille's Lakou" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
Jul 20, 20261h 13m
Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 3m
Ute Hüsken and Suganya Anandakichenin eds., "Pathika: Studies of South Asian Texts and Traditions" (HAS, 2026)
Jul 16, 202628 min
Inside Science Fiction Studies
Jul 15, 2026
Sarah Rosenson, "Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis: A Guide to Close Reading of and Creative Writing on the Bible" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2026)
Jul 14, 202658 min
Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)
Jul 7, 202645 min
Katherine Krauss, "Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 20261h 8m
Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 4, 202658 min
In Praise: A Conversation with Texas Poet Laureate & Founder of Torch Literary Arts, Amanda Johnston
Jun 30, 2026
Kevin Reilly, "Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness" (Peter Lang, 2026)
Jun 30, 202643 min
“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
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 5, 202639 min
Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)
Jun 5, 202637 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
chaun webster, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" (Greywolf, 2026)
May 26, 2026
What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
May 26, 202655 min
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
May 26, 20261h 14m