128 Episodes

  1. The Acceptance of Mortality in Keats’s To Autumn

    Published: 8/31/2020

  2. Escape into Art in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

    Published: 8/24/2020

  3. Truth as Beauty in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn

    Published: 8/17/2020

  4. Mastery and Repetition in Groundhog Day

    Published: 8/10/2020

  5. Love and Wit in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

    Published: 8/4/2020

  6. (post)script: Debut

    Published: 8/1/2020

  7. Expediency and Intimacy in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment

    Published: 7/27/2020

  8. Marital Economics in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    Published: 7/20/2020

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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.