Rebecca Colesworthy talks about the university press and how its workings should be demystified, what authors should keep in mind when they
Social Psychoanalysis
Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients
World Literature
Roanne Kantor tells us about World Literature, in the ideas and practices of readers, writers, and scholars. Spatial metaphors like libraries, closets,
Epic
Sohini Sarah Pillai talks about epics, long narrative poems about heroic events – whether all such poems can be called epics, and
Black Trans Feminism
Marquis Bey talks about the radical and abolitionist project of Black Trans Feminism. Rather than an identity formation, it is a politics
Aunties
Kareem Khubchandani talks about aunties, figure across culture that stand for inquiry and succor, at limits of, or outside of traditional family
Monuments
Erin L. Thompson talks about monuments, and their role in American public life. Public art intervenes in directly in politics, shaping social
Flatness
Noreen Masud talks about the unnamed feelings and ambiguous modes of relationship occasioned by flat landscapes, and the act of looking at
Disintermediation
Mark McGurl talks about disintermediation, a key term for internet commerce, and his new book about fiction in the age of digital
Autofictionalization
Claus Elholm Andersen talks about autofictionalization, a mode of narration that characterizes autotfiction, where the narrative consciousness or voice is placed with
Negro Literature
Elizabeth McHenry talks about the moment in the history of African American literature in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation,
Apabhraṃśa
Abhishek Avtans talks about the apabhraṃśa, a word that refers to the middle stage of the Indo-Aryan languages, crucial links between ancient
Book Proposal
Laura Portwood-Stacer talks with Kim about book proposals. Laura is a consultant for academic authors. Her book, titled, appropriately, The Book Proposal
Squid Game
Kyung Hyun Kim talks about the Netflix series Squid Game, its economic and political contexts, and its cultural potential. He also talks
Legal Regulation of Drugs
Carl Hart speaks with Kim about America’s punitive drug laws, and how we might change them for the better. He argues that
Biscuit Art
Ella Hawkins talks about the biscuits she makes, inspired by her research on Elizabethan dress, and on everything from William Morris wallpapers
