Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors wr…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
Episode 102
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Mary Bridges, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and Internationa…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Episode 283
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escap…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors wr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 1
When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked because the historic…
9 months ago
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 671
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding rol…
9 months ago
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 545
Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left …
9 months, 1 week ago
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 35
The Secular Enlightenment by Professor Margaret C. Jacob, has been called a major new history on how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday …
9 months, 1 week ago
On Bullshit in AI
Today we’re continuing our series on Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. I have the privilege to speak with Arvind Narayanan co-author of th…
9 months, 1 week ago
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Classicism and Other Phobias (Princeton University Press, 2025) shows how the concept of “classicism” lacks the capacity to affirm the aesthetic valu…
9 months, 1 week ago