The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere
Do women have to choose between life as an artist and being a mother? That’s what the story boils (or burns!) down to in Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel (and in the eponymous Hulu Series) Little Fires E...
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Novel RomAntics #9: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Los Angeles-based writer Ryan Gattis, discuss Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, a road novel about a family traveling from New York Ci...
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LadyFiction #8:Thinking Post-Pandemic Futures in Women’s Novels: The Tiger Flu (2018) and Station Eleven (2014)
In Oct 2021, aka the second fall after the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic, many pressing questions persist: What will be our new normal? How will we construct our stories and our identities ...
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NovelRomAntics #8: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful
In the second of two episodes about reinterpretations of The Great Gatsby, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Michael Coyle, discuss The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, in which Daisy Buchan...
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German Election Preview
Political correspondent Christina Neuhaus and host Andrew Sola discuss the upcoming federal elections in Germany. They cover the top six parties: CDU, SPD, the Greens, FDP, AFD, and the Left. ...
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9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
Marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Stefanie and
her guest, Americanist Marius Henderson, discuss contemporary literature
and the concept of American art afte...
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Introduction to US Foreign Policy 20 Years after 9/11
In this show, Andrew Sola and his guest, Prof. Steven Durand, discuss different theoretical approaches to understanding US foreign policy and international security 20 years after 9/11. Topics ...
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Novel RomAntics #7: "No One Is Coming to Save Us" by Stephanie Powell Watts
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor of English at Colgate University, Michael Coyle, discuss No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts. This is the first of ...
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Norwegian Election Preview & the 10-Year Anniversary of the July 22 Terrorist Attack
Dr. Trygve Svensson, director of the Norwegian think tank AGENDA, and Andrew Sola preview the upcoming elections in Norway on 13 September. Topics include antagonistic politics, social and econ...
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Novel RomAntics #6: Willy Vlautin's The Night Always Comes
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor Robert Eaglestone, discuss The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin, a novel set in Portland, Oregon that dramatizes the human cost of...