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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The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 1) contributed by Lukas · Nov 20, 2023
(post)script: Post-Tryst (Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters”) contributed by Lukas · Nov 13, 2023
The Tyranny of the Good in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” contributed by Lukas · Nov 6, 2023
Odysseus and Penelope’s Comedy of Remarriage (“The Odyssey,” Postscript to Part 3) contributed by Lukas · Oct 30, 2023
Terminal Wooings in “The Odyssey” (Part 3 of 3) contributed by Lukas · Oct 23, 2023
Foolish Adventures in “The Odyssey” (Part 2 of 3) contributed by Lukas · Sep 25, 2023
Home as Identity in “The Odyssey” contributed by Lukas · Aug 28, 2023
Competing Affections in “The Lion in Winter” contributed by Lukas · Jul 31, 2023
Friendship and Honor in “Becket” (1964) contributed by Lukas · Jul 3, 2023
Losing Your Head in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” contributed by Lukas · Jun 5, 2023
Time and Taboo in “Back to the Future” (1985) contributed by Lukas · May 16, 2023
The Violence of Redemption in John Donne’s “Batter My Heart” (Holy Sonnet 14) contributed by Lukas · Apr 10, 2023
Mortal Pretensions in John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet 10) contributed by Lukas · Mar 13, 2023
Trauma and Repetition in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974) contributed by Lukas · Feb 13, 2023
Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” contributed by Lukas · Jan 16, 2023
Pagan Poetics in “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens contributed by Lukas · Dec 19, 2022
Production for Use in “His Girl Friday” contributed by Lukas · Nov 21, 2022
Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” contributed by Lukas · Oct 24, 2022
Fate and Blame in “Long Day’s Journey into Night” contributed by Lukas · Sep 26, 2022
Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) contributed by Lukas · May 9, 2022
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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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