Podcast Episodes

Brian Hallstoos, "Sol Butler: An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. In Sol Butler: An Olymp…

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Darius Phelps, "My God’s Been Silent" (Writ Large Press, 2026)

My God’s Been Silent (Writ Large Press, 2026) is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in th…

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The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past

When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Roma…

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Robert P. Kolker and David Wyatt, "The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision" (Routledge, 2026)

An accessible introduction to the concept of the auteur (author) in film theory.

In The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision (Routledge, 2026) Robert Kolke…

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Tracee de Hahn, "Swiss Vendetta" (Minotaur Books, 2017)

Agnes Luthi is a police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland who transfers from financial to violent crimes just in time to investigate the death of a yo…

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Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

In Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), Lisa Björkman invites our attention to political form and how th…

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Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law

International law scholars are often among the sharpest critics of the Trump administration—but what if the usual story misses something essential? I…

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Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

This episode features a conversation with the founding members of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, also known as the Auntylectuals. We…

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How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions

Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape …

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His Girl Friday

The average estimated words-per-minute in a feature film is 90; His Girl Friday (1940) clocks in at 240. And yet the fast dialogue is only one of it…

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