The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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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...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #3: An Entire Book, An Entire Life: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Sarah Manguso
The truth disappears when we summarize and paraphrase. In the third episode, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen turn to wisdom literature written by two transatlantic women whose lives span three c...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #2: The Image of Our Mind: Pope, Schlegel, Franklin, and Blake
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. In the second episode, Coyle and Swensen trace the evolution of thought from the Enlightenment period (1685-1815) through the Romantic era (18...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #1: Wiping Away the Horizon: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens
Everything that matters is difficult to understand. In the first episode of Transatlantic Wisdom, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen unpack the meaning of Nietzsche’s famous line that we have kille...
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Introducing Transatlantic Wisdom
The Trans-Atlanticist at the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg is delighted to announce the launch of our new six-part series called Transatlantic Wisdom, which explores the rich interchange of ideas be...
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Gratitude, Guilt, and Greed: Understanding Germany’s Relationship with Russia
In this episode, Andrew Sola and Christina Neuhaus, political correspondent for the Agence France-Press in Berlin, analyze the complexities of Germany’s relationship with Russia since World War ...