The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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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...
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LadyFiction Goes to the Movies: Chloe Zhao‘s "Nomadland“
With her guest, film expert and documentary maker Anna Sola, Stefanie
Schäfer discusses the winning film of the 2021 Academy Awards, zooming
in on visual anthropology, freedom and mo...
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LadyFiction #5: On Electric Women: Reading Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the 19th Century"
With her guest Andrew Wildermuth, Stefanie Schaefer discusses the text
that kicked off the white women's movement in the US, Margaret Fuller's
1845 "Woman in the 19th Century", inter...
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Novel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and host Douglas Cowie discuss What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, a collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah. They discuss several of...
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LadyFiction#4: Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson and Bettina Judd
Recorded on International Women's Day, LadyFiction’s episode 4 turns to the history of science—and the forgotten role black people played as study objects in this context. Stefanie Schäfer and D...
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Novel RomAntics #4: Madeline Miller's Circe
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Classicist Hannah Bean, discuss Circe by Madeline Miller. The novel reimagines and retells the story of one of the characters Odysseus encounte...
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Europe's COVID Vaccine Crisis
In this episode, host Andrew Sola and our resident EU expert Guenter Danner discuss challenges facing the EU's vaccination program. Also, they discuss the long-term economic consequences of the...
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Novel RomAntics #3: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
In Episode 3, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, science fiction writer Adam Roberts, discuss The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, an ambitious novel set in the near future that t...
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LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife
We celebrate Women's History Month with an episode about women and politics. In the second episode of LadyFiction Stefanie Schaefer discusses First Ladies and “First Lady Fiction” with her gues...
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NovelROMANtics #2: Colum McCann's Apeirogon
March is Irish-American Heritage Month in the United States. In Episode #2 of NovelROMANtics, host Douglas Cowie and his guest Shane Carmichael discuss Apeirogon by Colum McCann, an Irish story...