Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
Episode 275
Everyone knows Judy Blume.
Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn …
1 year, 3 months ago
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Episode 7
Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017.
The abundance of laws and constitutional a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
Episode 296
Russia has a long history of publishers operating from abroad, producing books and periodicals for a Russian-speaking audience. One notable example i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
Episode 1547
One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg …
1 year, 3 months ago
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Episode 160
Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary represen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 92
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan Kao analyses premodern whiteness as operations of…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 93
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2024) presents an innovative and imaginative rea…
1 year, 4 months ago
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
Episode 338
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its …
1 year, 4 months ago
Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Episode 77
The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of individual desires with societal norms in the formati…
1 year, 4 months ago
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Episode 612
Raised in the Judería or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to Jo…
1 year, 4 months ago