Listen to Owen Bennett-Jones discuss the future of opinion polls with Mark Pack

New Books Network
Literary Studies
High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …

Literary Studies

Subscribe:

Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.

High Theory May 17, 2022

Love as Critique

A Discussion with Manasvin Rajagopalan

Manasvin Rajagopalan

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Saronik talks to Manasvin Rajagopalan about critical possibilities in varied literary ideations of love. Manasvin mentions Hannah Arendt’s concept of love as destruction, the concepts of Puram …
Poetry May 17, 2022

Synaptic

Alison Calder

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder asks us to think about the way we perceive and the ways in which we seek to know ourselves and others …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists May 17, 2022

Collecting Lives

Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures

Elizabeth Rodrigues

Hosted by Marshall Poe
On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting …
Think About It May 16, 2022

Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

Book Talk 52

Linda Patterson Miller

Hosted by Uli Baer
When first published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose relationships unravel …
Science, Technology, and Society May 16, 2022

Four Shades of Gray

The Amazon Kindle Platform

Simon Peter Rowberry

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. Dr …
High Theory May 16, 2022

Witnessing

A Discussion with Ulrich Baer

Ulrich Baer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ulrich Baer talks to Kim about the process and phenomenon of witnessing, which creates collective acknowledgement, understanding, and responsibility for trauma. Among other works, he talks about Shoshana Felman and …
The Common Magazine May 13, 2022

Idlewild

The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Nathan Jordan Poole

Hosted by Emily Everett
Nathan Jordan Poole speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Idlewild,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. In this conversation, Nathan talks about doing seasonal work …
High Theory May 12, 2022

9/11 Family Novel

A Discussion with Jay Shelat

Jay Shelat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik chats with Jay Shelat about the 9/11 family novel. They discuss how the attacks (re)dynamized constructions and perceptions of family. Jay refers to a few 9/11 family novels, including …
Indian Ocean World May 11, 2022

Dockside Reading

Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

Isabel Hofmeyr

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British …
Latin American Studies May 10, 2022

Fictions of Migration

Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia

Lorena Cuya Gavilano

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Lorena Cuya Gavilano about her interesting new book Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in …
High Theory May 6, 2022

Computational Creativity

A Discussion with Tuhin Chakrabarty

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results fair. (Saronik messes up the word …
Academic Life May 5, 2022

Behind the Scenes at a Literary Magazine

A Talk with Jennifer Acker, Founder and Editor-in-Chief at The Common

Jennifer Acker

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: How the Common got startedWhat is involved in running a literary journal Why grants and institutional support matter so …
High Theory May 5, 2022

Institutions

A Discussion with Chad Hegelmeyer

Chad Hegelmeyer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Chad Hegelmeyer about the institutional turn in literary studies. Chad references Jeremy Rosen’s article “The Institutional Turn” from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. We also talk …
Recall This Book May 5, 2022

We are Not Digested

A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

Rajiv Mohabir

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (three books in 2021!) and …
German Studies May 4, 2022

Afropolitan Encounters

Literature and Activism in London and Berlin

Anna von Rath

Hosted by Nicole Coleman
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin (Peter Lang, 2022), the first book in the new series “Imagining Black Europe,” explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African …
Eastern European Studies May 4, 2022

Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

Body, Belief, and Human Identity

Stanley Bill

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the …
High Theory May 4, 2022

Mimesis

A Discussion with Alliya Dagman

Alliya Dagman

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim interviews Alliya Dagman about mimesis. Alliya references Plato’s Republic and various internet memes, including a John Oliver meme about how Xi Jinping hates being compared to Winnie the Pooh …
Literary Studies May 3, 2022

Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel

Marta Puxan-Oliva

Hosted by Eralda Lameborshi
Marta Puxan-Oliva’s Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel (Routledge, 2021), engages with the intertwined relationship between narrative studies – centering on narrative reliability – racial conflicts …
Women's History May 3, 2022

Transforming Girls

The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

Julie Pfeiffer

Hosted by Renee Garris
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (UP of Mississippi, 2021) explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender …