Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

128 Episodes

1. Competing Affections in “The Lion in Winter”

   Published: 7/31/2023
2. Friendship and Honor in “Becket” (1964)

   Published: 7/3/2023
3. Losing Your Head in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away”

   Published: 6/5/2023
4. Time and Taboo in “Back to the Future” (1985)

   Published: 5/16/2023
5. The Violence of Redemption in John Donne’s “Batter My Heart” (Holy Sonnet 14)

   Published: 4/10/2023
6. Mortal Pretensions in John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet 10)

   Published: 3/13/2023
7. Trauma and Repetition in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974)

   Published: 2/13/2023
8. Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

   Published: 1/16/2023
9. Pagan Poetics in “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

   Published: 12/19/2022
10. Production for Use in “His Girl Friday”

    Published: 11/21/2022
11. Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”

    Published: 10/24/2022
12. Fate and Blame in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

    Published: 9/26/2022
13. Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)

    Published: 5/9/2022
14. What Falls Upon the Living in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

    Published: 4/11/2022
15. Finding Home in Stephen Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982)

    Published: 3/14/2022
16. The Power of Calm: Two Wordsworth Sonnets

    Published: 2/28/2022
17. What Nature Betrays: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 2)

    Published: 2/14/2022
18. Mother Nature’s Nurture in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 1)

    Published: 1/31/2022
19. The Fool Gets Hurt in Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954)

    Published: 1/17/2022
20. False Roles and Fictitious Selves in “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

    Published: 1/3/2022