Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES.
It will take you on a journey through literature from antiquity to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity.
It asks, What on earth is love? Where in the world is love? Are we born to love or taught to love? Is love, like Rumi said, perfect thirst? But most importantly: can there be love without love stories? Do love stories, as Jeffrey Eugenides claimed, “nearly without exception, give love a bad name,”
The host, Adnan Mahmutović is a Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University.