Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

A podcast by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh - Lunedì

128 Episodio

Spiritual Matters in Chekhov’s “The Student” and “A Medical Case”
Pubblicato: 26/04/2021
Art and Action in Chekhov’s “The House with the Mezzanine”
Pubblicato: 12/04/2021
Nipped by Love in Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog”
Pubblicato: 29/03/2021
Business Gets Personal in “The Godfather” (1972)
Pubblicato: 01/03/2021
(post)script: Post-Hall: Pimps, Pills, and Automobiles
Pubblicato: 22/02/2021
Love and Nostalgia in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” (1977)
Pubblicato: 15/02/2021
Yielding to Suggestion in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
Pubblicato: 01/02/2021
Clever Hopes in W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
Pubblicato: 18/01/2021
The “Human Position” of Suffering in W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Pubblicato: 04/01/2021
Mutual Amusement in “The Awful Truth” (1937)
Pubblicato: 21/12/2020
Against Specialization in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”
Pubblicato: 07/12/2020
Kill Billy: Order and Innocence in Melville’s “Billy Budd”
Pubblicato: 23/11/2020
(post)script: Post-Gatsby
Pubblicato: 16/11/2020
The American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”
Pubblicato: 09/11/2020
Being Yourself in John Cassavetes’s “A Woman Under the Influence”
Pubblicato: 26/10/2020
Worrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate”
Pubblicato: 05/10/2020
Slouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2
Pubblicato: 28/09/2020
Things Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1
Pubblicato: 21/09/2020
Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”
Pubblicato: 14/09/2020
The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Pubblicato: 07/09/2020

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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.

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128 Episodio

Spiritual Matters in Chekhov’s “The Student” and “A Medical Case”

Art and Action in Chekhov’s “The House with the Mezzanine”

Nipped by Love in Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog”

Business Gets Personal in “The Godfather” (1972)

(post)script: Post-Hall: Pimps, Pills, and Automobiles

Love and Nostalgia in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” (1977)

Yielding to Suggestion in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”

Clever Hopes in W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”

The “Human Position” of Suffering in W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Mutual Amusement in “The Awful Truth” (1937)

Against Specialization in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”

Kill Billy: Order and Innocence in Melville’s “Billy Budd”

(post)script: Post-Gatsby

The American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”

Being Yourself in John Cassavetes’s “A Woman Under the Influence”

Worrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate”

Slouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2

Things Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1

Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s Rear Window