Parenting Paused presses PAUSE on those shame inducing parenting failures. It presses PLAY on your inner wisdom and the ability to be the parent you want to be. Join Leslie Potter, mother and founder of Purejoy Parenting, as she shares her personal experiences as well as works with other moms and dads in real time to show you the step-by-step process to turn your parenting around.
…
continue reading
The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast “one of the great archives of the art of our time.” When the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics gave host Tyler Green one of its inaugural awards for criticism in 2014, it included a special citation for The MAN Podcast.
…
continue reading
Comedians go up with no prepared material, ask for audience suggestions, and create Stand-Up On The Spot. Hosted by Jeremiah Watkins. Watch the series on Youtube.
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
…
continue reading
Calling all .NET developers! Dive into the heart of modern .NET technology with us. We're thrilled to introduce our revamped podcast, dedicated to guiding you through the latest and greatest in the world of .NET development. Our show, previously known as The .NET Core Podcast, is all about keeping you up-to-date and empowered in this ever-evolving field. Tune in for engaging interviews with industry leaders, as we discuss the topics every .NET developer should be well-versed in. From cross-p ...
…
continue reading
Millions of women are shifting the economics in our country and creating jobs and opportunities for others – on their own terms. Recent research shows that women-owned businesses are increasing at a rate of five times the national average. It all sounds promising but the facts are, ONLY 2% of women-owned businesses are breaking into the ‘two comma club’ in revenue. Ladies, it’s time to dig deeper and talk candidly to the women who are rocking their profits. Each week, I’ll showcase today’s t ...
…
continue reading
Episode No. 667 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Melissa Cody. MoMA PS1 is presenting "Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies," through September 9. The exhibition features over 30 weavings and a new work. It was curated by Isabella Rjeille and Ruba Katrib. Cody, a fourth-generation Navajo weaver, creates tapestries from traditional techniques that e…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
55:36
55:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:36
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Clarkson Potter, 2023), honors her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black Appalachian women. She contends, “The concept of the kitchen ghost came to me years ago, when I realized that my …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
53:04
53:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:04
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world t…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
43:53
43:53
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
43:53
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heath…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
55: SOTS: Erik Griffin, Tommy Pope, Dulce Sloan, Wolves of Glendale & Jeremiah Watkins | Ep 55
1:21:09
1:21:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:21:09
Stand-Up On The Spot! Featuring completely improvised sets from Erik Griffin, Tommy Pope, Dulce Sloan, Wolves of Glendale & Jeremiah Watkins. No material. Comedians create Stand-Up On The Spot off audience suggestions. You know Erik Griffin from Workaholics, Kill Tony, Tommy Pope from Stuff Island and Tires on Netflix, Dulce Sloan from The Daily Sh…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50:05
50:05
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
50:05
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaeval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a mediaeval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various asp…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
1:10:56
1:10:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:56
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical no…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
46:09
46:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
46:09
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
39:02
39:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
39:02
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The recent COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 laid bare the vulnerabilities in existing funding structures, highlighting just how fragile these lifelines can be. Coupled with a surge in social initiatives that de…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
1:06:27
1:06:27
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:06:27
In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University about his most recent work, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan, published in 2020 by Fordham University Press. In this short but intricate and dense work, Redfield investigates the “shibboleth”—the word, if it is one, an…
…
continue reading
Episode No. 666 features author and art historian Michael Lobel. Lobel is the author of "Van Gogh and the End of Nature," which was just published by Yale University Press. The book interrogates Van Gogh's presentation of nature, and finds that Van Gogh was looking more intently at industry, pollution, and environmental degradation than is typicall…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
1:01:08
1:01:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:08
"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red and green liquids, slender fingers, pomegranate-colored lips, and feverish eyes. Tables and chairs, together with the crowd of people, cast their reflections on the center of the shiny floor. Everyone wa…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
1:00:03
1:00:03
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:03
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Based on what she called "rational self-interest", Rand believed in prosperity-seeking individualism above all. Alexandra Popoff's deeply researched biography traces Rand's journey from her early life as…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
1:01:02
1:01:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:02
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Jeremy Tuft is a physics instructor and former artillery officer who is cryogenically frozen in his laboratory only to emerge after a ce…
…
continue reading
With My Gothic Dissertation, University of Iowa PhD Anna M. Williams has transformed the dreary diss into a This American Life-style podcast. Williams’ witty writing and compelling audio production allow her the double move of making a critical intervention into the study of the gothic novel, while also making an entertaining and thought-provoking …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59:45
59:45
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:45
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gregory Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pu…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
1:10:06
1:10:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:06
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
1:03:13
1:03:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:13
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it’s as if Enayat never existe…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46:06
46:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
46:06
Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at American University examines the life and writing of Orwell to offer lessons for contemporary politics and society. The book examines the influences that shaped Eric Blair’s nom de plume, as well as show…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
55:16
55:16
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:16
It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing num…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
37:23
37:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
37:23
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Virginia Press, 2023), Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritua…
…
continue reading
Episode No. 665 features curator Cathleen Chaffee and critic Elisabeth Kirsch. Chaffee is the curator of "Marisol: A Retrospective," which is at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) through January 6, 2025. The exhibition presents work Marisol, sometimes remembered as 'the forgotten star of pop art,' made between the …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
30:40
30:40
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
30:40
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
1:04:20
1:04:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:20
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2024), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the intersections between historical context and literary production in the "life" of Yājñavalkya, the most important ancient Indian literary figure prior to the Buddha. Known for his sharp tongue and deep thought, Yājñavalkya is associated with a number of "fi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
54: SOTS: Harland Williams, Tony Baker, Annie Lederman, Matt Braunger & Jeremiah Watkins | Ep 54
1:27:36
1:27:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:27:36
Stand-Up On The Spot! Featuring completely improvised sets from Harland Williams, Tony Baker, Annie Lederman, Matt Braunger & Jeremiah Watkins. No material. Comedians create Stand-Up On The Spot off audience suggestions. You know Harland Williams from Kill Tony, The Harland Highway, Half Baked, and you know Tony Baker from Daddy Issues Podcast, his…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024)
1:50:19
1:50:19
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:50:19
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engin…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
1:12:20
1:12:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:12:20
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of mascu…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
1:16:35
1:16:35
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:16:35
Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)
52:32
52:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:32
Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Generative AI for .NET Developers with Amit Bahree
1:07:32
1:07:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:32
Avalonia XPF This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Podcasting Services, where your podcast becomes extraordinary. Show Notes Maybe start with Generative AI. As you, I think, touched on, it's different from what we call "traditional AI." And I also want to acknowledge the term "traditional AI"l is very odd to …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
O'Keeffe's New York, Rebecca Manson
1:14:41
1:14:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:41
Episode No. 664 features curator Sarah Kelly Oehler and artist Rebecca Manson. With Annelise K. Madsen, Oehler is the co-curator of "Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks." The exhibition spotlights O'Keeffe's paintings of New York City, surrounding them with pictures she made of Lake George and the Southwest. It's at the Art Institute of Chicago through…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
1:00:37
1:00:37
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:37
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Muslimness in Books for Young Readers: A Chat with A. M. Dassu
1:00:16
1:00:16
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:16
Persevering with our literary theme this season, in this episode Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward chat to A. M. Dassu about her books for young readers. Az is a children’s author of fiction and non-fiction, whose books include Fight Back (Tu Books, 2022) and Boy, Everywhere (Tu Books, 2021). Her books engage young readers with themes of migration, a…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
1:04:32
1:04:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:32
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons (Columbia University Press, 2023) makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Miguel Escobar Varela, "Theater as Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
36:21
36:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:21
In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the hu…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Chris Atley – The Key to Better Decision Making
29:05
29:05
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
29:05
Chris Atley explains her career path as a coach for female coaches, how to know if you should be a coach, and how to make better decisions. “The hardest part of making a decision is being afraid of making a wrong decision.” - Chris Atley. Learn more about this episode of She’s Got Moxie at findingjoyeveryday.com/191…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists" (Duke UP, 2023)
50:33
50:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
50:33
Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
1:01:54
1:01:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:54
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
1:04:09
1:04:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:09
In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedde…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hannan Hever, "Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s" (Stanford UP, 2016)
1:48:22
1:48:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:48:22
Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
54:00
54:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:00
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
58:02
58:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:02
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
1:07:58
1:07:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:58
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57:21
57:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:21
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
1:03:36
1:03:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:36
Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…
…
continue reading
Episode No. 663 features artist Jeremy Frey and curator Sarah Humphreville. The Portland Museum of Art is presenting "Jeremy Frey: Woven," a twenty-year survey of Frey's basketry and printmaking. The exhibition features more than fifty baskets made from natural materials such as black ash and sweetgrass, as well as prints and video. The exhibition …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers
1:14:30
1:14:30
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:30
In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present of the Islamicate, including her Sufi Mysteries Quartet set in 10th Century Baghdad. In this interview she tells Saeed Khan and Salman Sayyid about her…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
1:15:56
1:15:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:15:56
Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, Yosefa Raz's book The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2023) reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to modern biblical scholarship's development. On the …
…
continue reading