Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

A podcast by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh - Mondays

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113 Episodes

  1. Worrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate”

    Published: 05/10/2020
  2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2

    Published: 28/09/2020
  3. Things Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1

    Published: 21/09/2020
  4. Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

    Published: 14/09/2020
  5. The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s Rear Window

    Published: 07/09/2020
  6. The Acceptance of Mortality in Keats’s To Autumn

    Published: 31/08/2020
  7. Escape into Art in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

    Published: 24/08/2020
  8. Truth as Beauty in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn

    Published: 17/08/2020
  9. Mastery and Repetition in Groundhog Day

    Published: 10/08/2020
  10. Love and Wit in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

    Published: 04/08/2020
  11. (post)script: Debut

    Published: 01/08/2020
  12. Expediency and Intimacy in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment

    Published: 27/07/2020
  13. Marital Economics in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    Published: 20/07/2020

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Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.

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