Oct 24, 2022
Archie Davies, translator of For a New Geography by Milton Santos, joins New Books in Geography for a discussion of the book.
Sep 08, 2022
To say that a work of queer theory like The Shapes of Fancy “reads like queer theory” may seem redundant, but it captures something about the aesthetics of Varnado’s vivacious, rolling—even insatiable—prose, and her productively askew orientation toward early modernity and the reigning analytic protocols and interpretive habits of early modern sexuality studies.
Sep 08, 2022
"I hope this book will invite reflection on the workings of identification and desire that animate its readers in the act of reading it, and I hope it will incite larger questions about where exactly desire, or queerness, inheres in any text or cultural object."
Aug 19, 2022
Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick.
Aug 19, 2022
[James Paruk], a world-recognized expert on loons, conveys his love and fascination with the common loon in an engaging style while sharing a wealth of information.