Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
In 1976, one year after the publication of his masterpiece Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany wrote Trouble on Triton: An Ambigu... Read more
13 Jun 2022
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1hr 31mins
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
Sitt Marie Rose, by Lebanese-American poet-painter Etal Adnan (1925-2021?), is a searing, vibrant statement on the parad... Read more
17 May 2022
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1hr 7mins
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
Victor Serge (1890-1947), Belgian-Russian revolutionary, novelist, intellectual, political prisoner, and stalwart comrad... Read more
11 Apr 2022
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1hr 10mins
Reflections on Mumbo Jumbo
Reflections on Mumbo Jumbo
A short supplement to our main episode on Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. We talk about essays in Greg Tate's 'Flyboy in the... Read more
21 Mar 2022
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17mins
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo is a “Neo-Hoodoo” detective story, a post-modern satire, a touchstone of Afro-futurist fiction, and an invoc... Read more
14 Mar 2022
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58mins
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts IV-V
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts IV-V
We return to Les Miserables after completing the second half of the book, which depicts the Paris Uprising of 1832 again... Read more
16 Feb 2022
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1hr 11mins
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts I-III
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts I-III
Les Miserables, one of the great literary works of the nineteenth century, was written by novelist, poet, statesman, and... Read more
1 Feb 2022
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1hr 17mins
Post-exoticism in 10 Lessons: Lesson 11, by Antoine Volodine
Post-exoticism in 10 Lessons: Lesson 11, by Antoine Volodine
Post-exoticism in 10 lessons is a sweltering, dreamlike study of narrative under conditions of extreme surveillance. Tra... Read more
13 Jan 2022
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1hr 8mins
His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
His Name Was Death is a 1947 science fiction novel published by Rafael Bernal, a Mexican writer, scholar, diplomat and a... Read more
13 Dec 2021
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1hr 29mins
Too Salty Too Wet by Tiffany Sia
Too Salty Too Wet by Tiffany Sia
The Hong Kong protests of 2019-2020 were a geopolitical, ideological, and media discourse flashpoint. We talked to artis... Read more
23 Nov 2021
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1hr 55mins