New Books in Literary Studies

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Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Recent Episodes
  • Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
    Jun 9, 2025 – 41:36
  • Surindar Nath Pandita, "डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote" (Pune, 2024)
    Jun 9, 2025 – 52:27
  • Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
    Jun 8, 2025 – 53:18
  • Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 58:26
  • 152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 44:01
  • Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 01:07:22
  • 151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
    Jun 5, 2025 – 32:43
  • Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 01:06:21
  • Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 53:14
  • Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 34:12
  • Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 47:13
  • Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:05:00
  • Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
    May 28, 2025 – 49:08
  • Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
    May 27, 2025 – 35:21
  • Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
    May 25, 2025 – 01:11:14
  • Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
    May 24, 2025 – 50:13
  • Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 23, 2025 – 53:06
  • Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
    May 22, 2025 – 50:58
  • Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
    May 21, 2025 – 49:44
  • Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
    May 20, 2025 – 01:17:09
  • Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
    May 19, 2025 – 49:25
  • Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 18, 2025 – 46:51
  • Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
    May 17, 2025 – 30:31
  • James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
    May 16, 2025 – 01:18:30
  • Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
    May 15, 2025 – 29:32
  • Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
    May 14, 2025 – 59:54
  • Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
    May 13, 2025 – 55:11
  • Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    May 11, 2025 – 58:46
  • Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
    May 10, 2025 – 42:33
  • “That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
    May 9, 2025 – 54:05
  • Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
    May 8, 2025 – 01:05:20
  • Nothingism
    May 6, 2025 – 20:23
  • Robin Miles: Talking Books
    May 5, 2025 – 01:14:29
  • Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
    May 4, 2025 – 47:32
  • Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
    May 2, 2025 – 58:56
  • Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    Apr 30, 2025 – 01:06:42
  • Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Apr 29, 2025 – 38:20
  • Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
    Apr 27, 2025 – 54:27
  • Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
    Apr 26, 2025 – 01:16:44
  • Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
    Apr 24, 2025 – 50:52
  • Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 46:34
  • Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 01:09:42
  • Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
    Apr 22, 2025 – 01:21:26
  • Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
    Apr 20, 2025 – 46:19
  • Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
    Apr 18, 2025 – 01:44:29
  • Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:01:55
  • Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
    Apr 14, 2025 – 51:27
  • Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
    Apr 13, 2025 – 48:45
  • Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
    Apr 12, 2025 – 53:27
  • The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
    Apr 11, 2025 – 01:47:43
Recent Reviews
  • 5onalee
    who gets a voice?
    so some of the podcast episodes present right-wing "scholarship" of dubious merit. that's fine. people can listen and make their own judgments. for all authors, interviewers should allow time for them to present their perspectives, but there should also be thorough and respectful challenging, including sources, methodology, potential gaps, and questioning about contrary perspectives. this is not always done, to the detriment of the audience and the authors. where the podcast fails is where so much of American discourse fails. it highly privileges academic work from the western and particularly the anglo world. you might need international language speakers and translators, but you should do that! this diversity of perspective from the rest of the 8 billion ppl on the planet is somehow completely ignored by the right wing campaign for "diversity of viewpoints." unless of course, the point of this endeavor is only to increase book sales a bit, and you assume there won't be many takers for non-English works. i would argue that these works have much more chance of being translated if they're actually given a chance to be presented.
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