Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBorges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Episode 136
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings i…
2 years, 10 months ago
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Episode 110
n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Net…
2 years, 10 months ago
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 1341
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to…
2 years, 10 months ago
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 16
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose ti…
2 years, 10 months ago
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Season 1 Episode 31
Part 2 explores the way that Shakespeare revised the original Lear story and the way he revised his own play to create a uniquely wrenching form of t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 23
When Charles Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scientific books of the day were the Bridgewater Treati…
2 years, 10 months ago
Raquel Gutiérrez, "Brown Neon" (Coffee House Press, 2022)
Episode 108
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the e…
2 years, 11 months ago
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 500
Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe—these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensiv…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Episode 274
Brenda Beck discusses her lifelong work on a Tamil folk legend, resulting in a graphic novel, an English translation and Hidden Paradigms: Comparing …
2 years, 11 months ago
Héctor Tobar, "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'" (MCD, 2023)
Episode 107
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors. We discuss their books and how their writing contributes to the …
2 years, 11 months ago