128 Episodes

  1. Psychedelic Regrets in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Part 2)

    Published: 5/27/2024
  2. Psychedelic Regrets in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

    Published: 5/20/2024
  3. Sins of Omission in “On the Waterfront” (1954) (Part 2)

    Published: 5/13/2024
  4. Sins of Omission in “On the Waterfront” (1954) (Part 1)

    Published: 5/6/2024
  5. Consciousness Bemoaned in “Aubade” by Philip Larkin (Part 2)

    Published: 4/29/2024
  6. Consciousness Bemoaned in “Aubade” by Philip Larkin (Part 1)

    Published: 4/22/2024
  7. Identity and Infamy in “Citizen Kane” (1941) (Part 2)

    Published: 1/15/2024
  8. Identity and Infamy in “Citizen Kane” (1941) (Part 1)

    Published: 1/8/2024
  9. Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 6)

    Published: 12/25/2023
  10. Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 5)

    Published: 12/18/2023
  11. Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 4)

    Published: 12/11/2023
  12. Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 3)

    Published: 12/4/2023
  13. Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 2)

    Published: 11/27/2023
  14. The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 1)

    Published: 11/20/2023
  15. (post)script: Post-Tryst (Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters”)

    Published: 11/13/2023
  16. The Tyranny of the Good in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters”

    Published: 11/6/2023
  17. Odysseus and Penelope’s Comedy of Remarriage (“The Odyssey,” Postscript to Part 3)

    Published: 10/30/2023
  18. Terminal Wooings in “The Odyssey” (Part 3 of 3)

    Published: 10/23/2023
  19. Foolish Adventures in “The Odyssey” (Part 2 of 3)

    Published: 9/25/2023
  20. Home as Identity in “The Odyssey”

    Published: 8/28/2023

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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 on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.