Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 56
How can the novel be a way to understand the development of nation-state borders? An important work in the intersections of law, literature, history,…
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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
Episode 65
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taught since 1975. He is an historian of early modern …
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Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 27
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, para…
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Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH)
Episode 51
What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between S…
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Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 339
For My Blemishless Lord (de Gruyter, 2023) presents the text and translation of the exquisite poem Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ by Tiruppāṇ Āḻvār, which is part …
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Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 91
In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were record…
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Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 128
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic…
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Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
Episode 78
Radio ReOrient is back for another season, and this time Hizer Mir is joined by a new team of hosts: Claudia Radiven, Saeed Khan and Chella Ward. In …
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Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 261
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently …
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Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)
Episode 50
Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are…
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