Molecular and cellular biologist Roya Huang joins us to talk about studying another language by discussing its poetry, reading in different disciplines, the benefits of small-group study, and more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: A leaf from a Farsi manuscript of poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy San Diego Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black
Nick Bantock Griffin and Sabine
Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics?
Jacques Derrida The Gift of Death
Jacques Derrida Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs
Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
William Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity
Forough Farroukhzad "The Wind-up Doll" (and others!)
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
James Joyce Ulysses
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (transl. Reg Keeland)
Jasbir K. Puar The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin (transl. Vladimir Nabokov)
Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain
Peter-Klaus Schuster Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf
Helen Vendler Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
Helen Vendler On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
