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Literary Studies
Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.
August 6, 2026
In the Scholar’s Workshop
For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, com…
August 5, 2026
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2024) examines one of the most revered …
August 2, 2026
Visualizing Egypt
Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publish…
August 1, 2026
Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech
Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Returns to Marrakesh, co-translated by Claudia Esposito and Laura Reeck and published by Syracuse University Press in 2026, chroni…
July 31, 2026
Love, Honour and God
In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Mikhail Pelevin about his book Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times (Iran an…
July 30, 2026
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections–alternately humorous, provocat…
July 30, 2026
The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repre…
July 29, 2026
Why Self-Publish First?
What does it take to turn a self-published book into a traditional publishing deal? Science writer Siri Carpenter — executive director of The Open Not…
July 27, 2026
Houses of Correction
Today’s guest, Matthew Ritger, is the author of Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvan…
July 26, 2026
Light of the Everlasting Life
From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of r…
July 24, 2026
Performing Transgression
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Harvard University P…
July 18, 2026
Middlemen
In this interview, we speak with Laura B. McGrath, an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Middlemen: Literary Agents…
July 16, 2026
Pathika
A conversation featuring the editors of the new Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing series Pathika - Studies of South Asian Texts and Traditions (HAS,…
July 15, 2026
Inside Science Fiction Studies
In this episode, the editors and managing editor of Science Fiction Studies offer an inside look at the journal, discussing its place in the field and…
July 15, 2026
Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis
Can creative writing become a form of biblical interpretation? That is the provocative question at the heart of my conversation with Sarah Rosenson a…
July 6, 2026
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a new framework for interpreting interactions with classical source materia…
July 6, 2026
Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption
Today’s guest, Krzysztof Rowiński, is the author of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film (Routledge, 2026). Thi…
July 4, 2026
The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris
With The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism (University of Chicago Press, 2026), Rachel…
June 30, 2026
Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness
Kevin P. Reilly is President Emeritus and Regent Professor with the University of Wisconsin System, having served as President from 2004-13. Kevin gr…
June 30, 2026
In Praise
In 2006 poet Amanda Johnston went in search of community and, when she didn’t find what she was looking for, Amanda built her own. Today, Torch Litera…