Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCarson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 134
In this volume entitled Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2023), Carson Bay focuses on an important bu…
2 years, 7 months ago
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 260
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This…
2 years, 7 months ago
Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 115
A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (Oxford University Press, 2023) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary volume that int…
2 years, 7 months ago
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Episode 203
Why do politicians write poems? And what does a politician’s poetry tell us about their leadership? In this episode, a collective of researchers from…
2 years, 7 months ago
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Episode 116
Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton An…
2 years, 7 months ago
Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)
Episode 42
12 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book (Coffee House Press, 2023), a one-of-a-kind …
2 years, 7 months ago
Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 263
Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked b…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 113
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 3
Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are the…
2 years, 8 months ago
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 54
Leonie Hannan's book Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth Century Home (Manchester University Press, 2023) explores the practice of scient…
2 years, 8 months ago