About this podcast
Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our…
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Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films
About this podcast
Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our…
Recent episodes
- A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“The Moose,” Part 2)24 Aug · 43 min
- A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“The Moose”)17 Aug · 38 min
- Curses and Colonizers in “The Mummy” (1999) – Part 23 Aug
- Curses and Colonizers in “The Mummy” (1999)29 Jul
- Existence and Expectancy in “Waiting for Godot” (Part 2)29 Jun · 44 min
- Existence and Expectancy in “Waiting for Godot”23 Jun · 49 min
- The Romance of Self-Destruction in “Withnail and I” (1987) – Part 218 May · 35 min
- The Romance of Self-Destruction in “Withnail and I” (1987)10 May · 44 min
- The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2)23 Mar · 39 min
- The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography”17 Mar · 44 min
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