When I decided to include Toni Morrison’s Beloved in my forests-of-fiction series, I knew who to reach out to. My former professor and friend, Philip Weinstein, is not only an expert on modern and contemporary fiction and author of – among numerous excellent books – What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner…
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In our third episode on the forests of the Western imagination, I discuss A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Randall Martin, Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick and author of Shakespeare & Ecology. Associated with the night, with dreams, the imagination, madness, and the theater itself, the forest of A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
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I’m excited to present the second episode in our series on the forest in fiction! Given our theme, I felt there had to be an episode on fairy tales, and I wanted to pick up a thread from my episode with fairy-tale specialist Maria Tatar on the Wolf in the Woods: the connection made by…
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In the first of our forests of fiction series, Peter Olson and I explore the two forests of Dante’s Inferno.
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