Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOla Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
Episode 1
Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, Lviv… The city, which is located in the western part of Ukraine, evokes a highly entangled past that contains references to a nu…
4 years, 7 months ago
David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 185
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Rus…
4 years, 7 months ago
Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)
Episode 68
It’s a great pleasure to welcome Colin Thubron to the Asian Review of Books podcast. Travel writer and novelist, Colin has written countless books th…
4 years, 7 months ago
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 106
“When I set out to write this book, I decided to approach it like a biography. After all, the Method had parents, obscure beginnings, fumbling toward…
4 years, 7 months ago
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 66
The border between Russia and China is one of the world’s longest, spanning thousands of miles. It’s one of the few extended land borders between two…
4 years, 8 months ago
David Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 160
Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (Routledge, 2020) explores the complex relationship between com…
4 years, 8 months ago
Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
Episode 184
Although largely unknown in the West, the Russian novelist and political essayist Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831-1891) has left a strong legac…
4 years, 8 months ago
Yuri Tynianov, "Küchlya, Decembrist Poet: A Novel" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2021)
Episode 138
Küchlya (1925), the first novel of the great Russian formalist Yury Tynyanov gives us a vividly written and moving recreation of the childhood, youth…
4 years, 8 months ago
Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 183
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past sever…
4 years, 8 months ago
Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 64
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Yuka Kiruma Kishida makes a fresh contr…
4 years, 8 months ago