Podcast Episodes

Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media with Niall Docherty (U California Press, 2025)

Episode 1796

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self…

6 hours ago

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Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: John Singleton's Hood Trilogy with Mark D. Cunningham (UP of Mississippi, 2026)

Episode 1794

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film, Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned th…

2 days, 6 hours ago

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Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public with Keegan Cook Finberg (Columbia UP, 2025)

Episode 1795

What is the place of poetry in the modern world? In Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public (Columbia UP, 2025), Keegan Cook Finberg, an…

2 days, 6 hours ago

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BAM!: John Madden, the NFL Explosion, and the Video Game that Changed Sports with Scott Howard-Cooper (Diversion Books, 2026)

Episode 1793

John Madden retired abruptly from coaching in 1979, five months after receiver Darryl Stingley suffered a paralyzing injury against his Raiders. The …

2 days, 6 hours ago

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Traveling the Yellow Brick Road with Steven Keslowitz (McFarland, 2026)

Episode 1791

In Traveling the Yellow Brick Road: What We Learn from The Wizard of Oz and Wicked (McFarland, 2026) Steven Keslowitz explores how The Wizard of Oz a…

5 days, 6 hours ago

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Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan's Cinema of Revolution with William Andrews (Awai Books, 2026)

Episode 1792

Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan’s Cinema of Revolution (Awai Books, 2026) is the first-ever English-language book on Adachi Masao. Ba…

5 days, 6 hours ago

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Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?

Episode 1790

When Neil Selkirk first saw one of Arbus’s photographs as a young man at someone’s house in London, it almost sent him screaming into the street. Uns…

1 week, 1 day ago

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Christmas Carols: An English Enchantment with John Potter (Yale UP, 2026)

Episode 1789

The English Christmas carol has been sung in court and cloister, tavern and field since medieval times. But with the first Festival of Nine Lessons a…

1 week, 3 days ago

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Action Bodies: VFX, Identity, and Embodiment in Blockbuster Cinema with Drew Ayers (U Texas Press, 2026)

Episode 1788

Exploring how digital visual effects have changed the representations of the body and identity in action films. When Harrison Ford appeared digitally…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women with Eleanor Johnson (Princeton UP, 2026)

Episode 1785

For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an enga…

1 week, 5 days ago

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