Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

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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, philos...

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“Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats contributed by Lukas · Jun 23, 2025
The Artifice of Eternity in Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” (Part 2) contributed by Lukas · Jun 16, 2025
The Artifice of Eternity in Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” contributed by Lukas · Jun 9, 2025
The Evil of Banality in “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) – Part 2 contributed by Lukas · May 26, 2025
The Evil of Banality in “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) contributed by Lukas · May 18, 2025
“Where the Meanings Are” – Four Poems by Emily Dickinson – Part 4 contributed by Lukas · Apr 28, 2025
“Where the Meanings Are” – Four Poems by Emily Dickinson – Part 3 contributed by Lukas · Apr 20, 2025
“Where the Meanings Are” – Four Poems by Emily Dickinson – Part 2 contributed by Lukas · Apr 7, 2025
“Where the Meanings Are” – Four Poems by Emily Dickinson contributed by Lukas · Mar 31, 2025
The Weight of Memory in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) – Part 2 contributed by Lukas · Mar 24, 2025
The Weight of Memory in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) contributed by Lukas · Mar 17, 2025
Possibility and Loss in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Part 2) contributed by Lukas · Feb 17, 2025
Possibility and Loss in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke contributed by Lukas · Feb 11, 2025
Irony as Anesthetic in Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H” (1970) – Part 2 contributed by Lukas · Feb 3, 2025
Irony as Anesthetic in Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H” (1970) contributed by Lukas · Jan 27, 2025
Aesthetic Humility in Marianne Moore’s “The Jerboa” (Part 2) contributed by Lukas · Jan 20, 2025
Aesthetic Humility in Marianne Moore’s “The Jerboa” contributed by Lukas · Jan 12, 2025
Word and Image in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) – Part 2 contributed by Lukas · Jan 6, 2025
Word and Image in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) contributed by Lukas · Dec 29, 2024
The Sublime Mundane in Conrad Aiken’s “Morning Song of Senlin” (Part 2) contributed by Lukas · Dec 23, 2024
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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...

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