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Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Ilan Stavans on Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing with Marion Quirici (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026)
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities with yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (U Virginia Press, 2026)
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Sep 26, 2026 |
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Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies with Yinghui Wu (Brill, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Emmy Waldman, "Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Nathan Wainstein, "Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel" (JHU Press, 2026)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Tess Chakkalakal, "A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Exploring Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Fantasy Masterpiece
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Sep 20, 2026 |
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Xiaofei Tian, "Writing Empire and Self: Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Tamara Hundorova, "Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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Christopher Freeburg, "Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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A Nation Wrestles With God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Jonathan Swift and David Womersley ed., "Gulliver's Travels: Cambridge Anniversary Edition" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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Agnes Mueller, "Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Aonghus MacKechnie, "Edinburgh: City of Romanticism" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Emily Sibley, "The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture" (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Lauren Delapenha, "Supermarketing" (Spring, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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Sara Pappas, "Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Mikhail Pelevin, "Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times" (Brill, 2025)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Siri Carpenter on Why She Self-Published First — and How It Led to a Traditional Book Deal
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Matthew Ritger, "Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Marie Léticée, "Camille's Lakou" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Ute Hüsken and Suganya Anandakichenin eds., "Pathika: Studies of South Asian Texts and Traditions" (HAS, 2026)
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Inside Science Fiction Studies
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Sarah Rosenson, "Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis: A Guide to Close Reading of and Creative Writing on the Bible" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2026)
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Katherine Krauss, "Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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In Praise: A Conversation with Texas Poet Laureate & Founder of Torch Literary Arts, Amanda Johnston
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Kevin Reilly, "Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness" (Peter Lang, 2026)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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“O Albany”: Novelist William Kennedy on His Great Cycle of the City
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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John K. Roth, "Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times" (Wipf and Stock, 2026)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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What Running Your Own Imprint for 15 Years Teaches You about Books, Readers, and Risk with Sarah Crichton
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Christina Williams "Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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173* Novel Dialogue Crossover: Aaron Gwyn goes West (Sean McCann, JP)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Alexander Vandewalle, "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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The Legacy of Chaim Grade
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo , "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Islam in English
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Kenna Neitch, "A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism" (SUNY Press, 2026)
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
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May 28, 2026 |
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Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
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May 26, 2026 |
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chaun webster, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" (Greywolf, 2026)
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May 26, 2026 |
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What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
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May 26, 2026 |
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Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)
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May 23, 2026 |
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The Novel as Instrument: Sinan Antoon and Michael Allan (MAT)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Bradfield's Books in Dark Times (JP)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Marissa Nicosia, "Shakespeare in the Kitchen" (Routledge, 2026)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Sumana Roy, "Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
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May 18, 2026 |
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David Eisler, "Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Jue Liang, "Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Martin Munro and Eliana Vagalau eds., "Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader's Guide" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
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May 10, 2026 |
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Place Presents Itself To You in Fragments: Ivan Vladislavić and Jeanne-Marie Jackson (MAT)
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May 07, 2026 |
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Frontier Films for America250: On the Western Genre and Beyond with Matthew J. Franck
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May 06, 2026 |
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Ana I. Oancea, "Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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May 06, 2026 |
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Christopher Cusack et al. eds., "The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
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May 05, 2026 |
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Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
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May 04, 2026 |
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David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea" (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Andrea Horbinski, "Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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David Womersley, "Thinking Through Shakespeare" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Tiffany Jo Werth, "The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon, "Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Vin Nardizzi, "Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Francis Young, "Fairies: A History" (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Twelve Lives: Creating Literary Community with Raymond Williams, PhD
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Decolonizing the Novum
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Fiction’s Lost Ambition with Writer Sam Kahn
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Eleanor Houghton, "Charlotte Brontë's Life in Clothes" (Bloomsbury 2026)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Pre-Reading
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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10.2 Beautiful Sentences Matter. Billy-Ray Belcourt and Matt Hooley (SW)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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S. D. Ellison, "Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse: Reading the Psalms as Utopian Literature" (Fortress Academic, 2025)
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Prolepsis
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe, "Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Suzanne Bost, "Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities" (U Minnesota Press)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic" (Lexington, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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10.1 "Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions:” Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Charles Delgadillo and Jason Stacy, eds., "Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Michèle Schaal, "Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes's Authorial Politics" (Peter Lang, 2026)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs: A Novel Dialogue Crossover Conversation
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Iria Seijas-Pérez, "Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood"(Routledge, 2025)
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Hang Tu, "Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Natasha Heller, "Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan" (U Hawai'i Press, 2025)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Anne Sokolsky ed., "Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Madhuri Deshmukh, "The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Alvin K. Wong, "Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Sarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Miriam Udel, "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Thomas J. Mazanec, "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Gil Ben-Herut, "Stories of Shiva's Saints: Selections from Harihara's Ragales" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Zubeda Jalalzai, "Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Judith Jesch, "The Saga of the Earls of Orkney" (Birlinn, 2025)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Arthur Bahr, "Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Shiben Banerji, "Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Aubrey Gabel, "The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Jonathan Eburne, "Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Claire Parnell, "Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2025
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Jessica Campbell, "The Brontës and the Fairy Tale" (Ohio UP, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Cosima Clara Gillhammer, "Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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159 Glenn Patterson: You Can Choose Who You Are (JP, DC)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Tim Beasley-Murray, "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (U Alberta Press, 2025)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Kathryn Robson, "Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Utopia is Boring with Evie Kendal
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Cassandra S. Tully de Lope, "Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell eds., "Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz and Sara Garbagnoli "La Pensée Wittig: Une Introduction" (Payot, 2025)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Julia Rensing, "Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, "The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New Tellings of Half-forgotten Stories from England's 39 Historic Counties" (The History Press, 2025)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Rose Casey, "Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Darcie Deangelo et al., "Demilitarizing the Future" (Anthem Press, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Kevin J. Hayes, "Understanding Hunter S. Thompson" (U South Carolina Press, 2025)
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Brian Duff, "Restaurant" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Eva De Clercq, Heleen De Jonckheere, and Simon Winant eds., "Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice" (Ergon-Verlag, 2025)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Carolin Duttlinger, "Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Surindar Nath Pandita, "डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote" (Pune, 2024)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
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May 24, 2025 |
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Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
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May 22, 2025 |
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Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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May 20, 2025 |
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Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
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May 19, 2025 |
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Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 18, 2025 |
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Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
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May 17, 2025 |
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James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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May 11, 2025 |
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Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
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May 10, 2025 |
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“That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
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May 08, 2025 |
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Nothingism
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May 06, 2025 |
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Robin Miles: Talking Books
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May 05, 2025 |
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Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
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May 04, 2025 |
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Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
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May 02, 2025 |
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Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Writing Against the System
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Action Without Hope
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Poetry
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Failed Passing
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Andrew Campana, "Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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D. C. Helmuth, "Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories" (Lonely Planet, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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David Mckinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study" (Routledge, 2025)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Melanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Booksellers’ Best 2024
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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“I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Angela Kim Harkins, "Reading with an "I" to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions" (de Gruyter, 2018)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Keith Gandal, "Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis While Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Non-literary Fiction
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Ghosts In Our Fields
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Benjamin Bergholtz, "Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Sonja Stojanovic, "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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V. Domontovych, "On Shaky Ground" (CEU Press, 2024)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)
|
Oct 10, 2024 |
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Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City Montana" (JP)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Jennifer Mooney, "Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Before and After the Book Deal
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Beth Driscoll, "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Literatures beyond the West
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Goth Diss
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Aug 05, 2024 |