The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #4: The House on Mango Street by S. Cisneros
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, poet and teacher Alina Borger, discuss The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. They begin by exploring why the novel makes for useful stu...
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Reading Slaughterhouse-Five on Kurt Vonnegut's 100th Birthday
The Amerikazentrum Hamburg commemorates Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday with a special podcast about his seminal novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The Amerikazentrum will also be hosting a Virtual Vonn...
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The Politics Podcast: The Energy War in Europe
In this episode, our experts explore the effects of Russia's war in Ukraine on European energy policy and EU politics. A number of countries are analyzed, including Germany, France, Hungary, Po...
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The Politics Podcast: The Triumph of the Far Right in Sweden and Italy
In this episode, Sola and Danner examine the recent elections in Sweden and Italy. Both nations experienced an enormous surge in votes for far-right parties. Is the European electorate moving ...
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #3: Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, documentary filmmaker Mark Blottner, discuss The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. Published in 1949, it tells the story of a war veter...
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #2: Richard Wright's Native Son (1940)
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, writer Ryan Gattis, discuss Native Son by Richard Wright. Published in 1940, it tells the story of a young Black Chicagoan who murders a White ...
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #1: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Dr. Katie McGettigan, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, discuss Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodor...
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Transatlantic Wisdom Finale: The Meaning of Meaning: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens Redux
There is no “I” that sees in every direction at once. In the sixth and final episode of Transatlantic Wisdom, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen return to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Moralit...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #5: Feeling and Thought Together: Bierce, Woolf, Parker, and Canetti
Different forms shape knowledge in different ways. In the fifth episode, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen introduce a German and an American scholar who study the aphoristic form, namely Gerhard ...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #4: Solutions Are Dangerous: Karl Kraus and H. L. Mencken
The meaning of a poem is the least interesting thing about it. In the fourth episode, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen share the satirical wisdom of two great transatlantic journalists and savage...