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Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.
March 18, 2026
Supernatural Japan
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic (U Michigan Press, 2026)examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the …
March 15, 2026
Quiet Methodologies
What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th…
March 15, 2026
Hypochondria
Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz reframe…
March 15, 2026
Flaxman Low
Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when ta…
March 14, 2026
Ascent to the Good
At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit o…
March 13, 2026
An Evening with Philip Roth
The YIVO Institute was pleased to present a special evening with acclaimed novelist Philip Roth. Roth read excerpts from his new novel, Nemesis (2010…
March 13, 2026
Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions
Aaron Gwyn is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynn’s War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All God’s Childr…
March 12, 2026
Contested Environmentalisms
For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid incr…
March 10, 2026
Toni at Random
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound imp…
March 9, 2026
Heartland Utopia
For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equali…
March 5, 2026
The Philosophy of Translation
The Philosophy of Translation (Yale UP, 2024) is a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators actu…
March 4, 2026
Cycle of Dreams and Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text
My guest today is Eric Weiskott, Professor of English at Boston College. Eric has previously published Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650…
March 1, 2026
Textures of Mourning
Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply …
February 24, 2026
Grrrl Writing
When Virginie Despentes (1969) published her provocative debut novel Baise-moi in 1994, no one could have anticipated how she would gradually become a…
February 23, 2026
American Masterpiece
Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Temple…
February 22, 2026
Shakespeare’s House
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Bir…
February 19, 2026
Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs
In this RTB and Novel Dialogue episode from 2021, Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian liter…
February 14, 2026
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025) is the first sustained critical analysis of the representat…
February 13, 2026
Postcolonialism Now
Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising (Orient BlackSwan, 2024) by Sourit Bhattacharya introduces a new method of decolonial reading a…
February 11, 2026
Sentimental Republic
How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past (Harvard UP, 20…