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Performing Arts
Interviews with performing artists and scholars of the performing arts about their new books.
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 2, 2026
The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and the New York Times has published its list of the best 100 television shows of the 21st Century. We react to this …
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 18, 2026
Dressays
The clothes we inherit, covet, purchase, borrow, wear, store, destroy, or give away are intricately woven into our ideas about who we are and how we r…
September 17, 2026
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body (Routledge, 2026) provides an epistemology of the body as it r…
September 16, 2026
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) by Dr. William R. Handley contributes to discussions in the environm…
September 9, 2026
The Idiots
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. In this interview, Morteza Hajizadeh …
September 1, 2026
Our Strange Duet
Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (Delacorte Press, 2026) is a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of …
August 31, 2026
Inside Chinese Theater
The first large number of Chinese immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1840s, and Chinese opera troupes were not far behind. In Insid…
August 31, 2026
Los Angeles and Film
It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined with Los …
August 25, 2026
Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies
This is Dr. Swati Joshi's inaugural episode on the New Books Network. In this episode, she interviews Dr. Lucy Jeffery about her monograph, Transdisci…
August 25, 2026
Musical Pripetshik
Most of the Yiddish songs we know today were created in the first half of the 20th century and distributed through commercial channels such as sheet m…
August 22, 2026
Architecture and Choreography
Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time (Routledge, 2024) examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments: unique…
August 21, 2026
Mulholland Drive at 25
In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor of Film Quarterly discusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive on its 25th ann…
August 20, 2026
Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal
Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers of jatra, Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were p…
August 17, 2026
How Many Roads
Scott Peeple's How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan (Reaktion, 2026) chronicles Bob Dylan’s rise from apprenticeships in Minneapolis cafés and Greenwic…
August 14, 2026
Melodrama As Provocateur
The centerpiece of Melodrama as Provocateur (Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhet…
August 10, 2026
Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
Today’s guest, Caro Pirri, is the author of Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement (Oxford University P…
August 10, 2026
Visions of the Village
The Bartered Bride, a comic opera by Bedrich Smetana, premiered in Prague on March 30, 1866. Its pastoral love story and setting in a rural Czech vill…
August 9, 2026
The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties
In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-…