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Bonus: Annabel Kim on “What if”
What do we do with a word that means both “if” and “yes”?
Nov 17
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Camellia Pham
3:51
Annabel Kim on Plasmas
Annabel Kim joins us to talk about Plasmas (Deep Vellum, 2022), Céline Minard’s posthuman sci-fi series of vignettes that read like a syntactical…
Nov 3
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Camellia Pham
16:52
October 2025
Bonus: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on translating rhyme across languages
What happens when you translate from a poetic tradition that sidesteps rhyme into one that can’t help but hum in iambic pentameter?
Oct 20
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Camellia Pham
4:20
Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Biologicity
Spencer Lee-Lenfield brings us Biologicity (Black Ocean, 2024) by South Korean poet Shin Hae-uk, a collection with offbeat turns, twisted logic, and…
Oct 6
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Camellia Pham
20:30
September 2025
Bonus: Mark Harman on retitling Kafka
What happens when a title becomes too familiar?
Sep 15
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Camellia Pham
1
4:27
Mark Harman on Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories
Mark Harman returns to Kafka with Selected Stories (Harvard University Press, 2024), a collection that combines courtroom logic with surrealist…
Sep 2
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Camellia Pham
17:33
August 2025
Special Episode 3: The Doctoral Program
During the 2024-25 academic year, the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard celebrated its departmental anniversary—and Paraphrasis is…
Aug 28
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Camellia Pham
32:33
Bonus: Adam Mahler on the poet’s names
What’s in a name?
Aug 18
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Camellia Pham
3:44
Adam Mahler on Shem Tov Ardutiel’s Moral Proverbs and Other Old Castilian Poems of Jewish Authorship
In this episode, Adam Mahler discusses his translation of Shem Tov Ardutiel’s Moral Proverbs and Other Old Castilian Poems of Jewish Authorship…
Aug 4
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Anna Hennigan
17:07
July 2025
Special Episode 2: The Undergraduate Program
During the 2024-25 academic year, the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard celebrated its departmental anniversary—and Paraphrasis is…
Jul 29
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Jess Jensen Mitchell
30:02
Bonus: Miriam Udel on rhyme schemes and the bath squad
What’s it like to tame an unruly stanza?
Jul 14
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Camellia Pham
4:33
Miriam Udel on Honey on the Page
In this episode, Anna speaks with Miriam Udel about Honey on the Page (NYU Press), her 2021 anthology of Yiddish children’s literature from the 20th…
Jul 7
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Camellia Pham
20:01
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