Now out in Geist 111: a clutch of poems inspired by the “Socrates Questions Agathon” speech in Plato’s Symposium. You can read the poems here. Versions will be included in Uninvited: Talking Back To Plato (forthcoming as a book! stay tuned…), a collaborative project with Carrie Jenkins that you can read about in a little piece we wrote for The Philosophers’ Magazine. Enjoy! Continue reading Sappho Questions Medusa: Poems
Known primarily as a travel writer thanks to the frequent assignment of her Diary in high school history and literature classes, Nun Abutsu was a thirteenth-century poet, scholar, and teacher, and also a prolific writer. Christina Laffin’s new book explores Abutsu’s life and written works, taking readers in turn through her letters, memoirs, poems, prayers, and travel diary, among others. You can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: An Interview
Bruce Rusk and I recently sat down to talk about his wonderful new book on poetics, classical scholarship, and the history of Shijing studies in China. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Critics and Commentators: An Interview
Katy Price and I recently talked about her engaging and elegantly written new book on the engagement with Einsteinian relativity by various reading publics in early twentieth-century Britain. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Loving Faster Than Light: An Interview
I had the pleasure of speaking with the very thoughtful Jack Chen about his recent book on literature, rulership, and a fascinating emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Poetics of Sovereignty: An Interview
Cosima Bruno and I recently spoke about her new book on poetry, the practice and theory of translation, and Chinese writer Yang Lian. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Between the Lines: An Interview
Jini Kim Watson and I recently spoke about her fascinating book on fictions of urban transformation in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The New Asian City: An Interview
I recently spoke with Christopher Nugent about his excellent recent book on Tang poetry and its material history. It was great fun, and you can listen to it here. Continue reading Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: An Interview
I recently spoke with Giusi Tamburello about her recent edited volume on emotions in East Asia. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia: An Interview
