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Back to SearchJames O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
Episode 46
It's a beautiful day in the village, and you are a horrible goose, ready to wreak charming havoc on the weary locals. You'll ruin their gardens, inva…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 148
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional crimina…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 217
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic…
10 months ago
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
For centuries, scribes across East Asia used Chinese characters to write things down–even in languages based on very different foundations than Chine…
10 months ago
Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Felix Cowan about his new book, The Kopeck Press Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918 (Univers…
10 months, 1 week ago
Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)
Michelle Phillipov's Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023) explores the new theoretical and political questi…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine and OR Books Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
The Nation Magazine, known for its long and storied history as a publisher of in-depth political and cultural analysis, has launched a new book impri…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotio…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason
Tom joins us to discuss his book Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason (Bloomsbury, 2023). Western philosophy ha…
11 months ago