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Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.
October 12, 2026
Realism After the Individual
The realist novel, so the story goes, isn’t really an American genre but a European and British one. And what the realist novel does—again, according …
October 9, 2026
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Katherine L. Alexander explores how one late …
October 9, 2026
A Room of His Own
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet (Academic Studies Press, 2025) makes the original and persuasive claim that Brods…
October 9, 2026
A Gathering of Leaves
Today I’m speaking with David Bentley Hart about his book, A Gathering of Leaves: Extravagances and Ephemera, from the University of Notre Dame Press.…
October 8, 2026
11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem
Meg Reid and Will Evans join Mesha Maren to consider what makes up a literary ecosystem. As leaders of two nonprofit independent presses,Hub City Writ…
October 8, 2026
The Examination of Religion (Dharmaparīkṣā)
Repetition, reconfiguration, or adaptation form key characteristics of the Indian literary traditions. Jain literature exemplifies this vividly, espec…
October 6, 2026
Flannery and Regina
The story of two women in the mid-twentieth-century South navigating financial independence, a changing rural landscape, and social norms. Flannery an…
October 4, 2026
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere
Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visua…
October 1, 2026
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you al…
September 30, 2026
Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation
How does an independent press survive by publishing the books the Big Five overlook? Amherst College professor and Spanglish scholar Ilan Stavans join…
September 27, 2026
Fitness for Freedom
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2025) explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disab…
September 27, 2026
Wastelands and Wonderlands
Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026) is an edited collection exploring uto…
September 26, 2026
Water Logics
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (U Virginia Press, 2026) examines the epistemological adjustments that take …
September 25, 2026
Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies
How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an …
September 24, 2026
Tsunami
Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico (Feminist Press, 2025) gathers the multiplic…
September 24, 2026
Filial Lines
Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge UP, 2026) by Dr. Emmy Waldman is the first book to place the autobiographical…
September 23, 2026
A Matter of Complexion
In A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin's Press, 2025), Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehen…
September 23, 2026
Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel
What does it mean for a modernist novel to fail?Modernism famously celebrates rupture, difficulty, and deviance from literary norms—but that very embr…
September 22, 2026
My America
Celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artist Langston Hughes is one of the few American writers who consistently wrote about democracy f…
September 20, 2026
Exploring Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea saga has enchanted generations of readers and stands as a foundational classic of the fantasy genre. To mark publication …