Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer with Jonathan Cole (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 2136
Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We…
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BAM!: John Madden, the NFL Explosion, and the Video Game that Changed Sports with Scott Howard-Cooper (Diversion Books, 2026)
Episode 2135
John Madden retired abruptly from coaching in 1979, five months after receiver Darryl Stingley suffered a paralyzing injury against his Raiders. The …
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Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: John Singleton's Hood Trilogy with Mark D. Cunningham (UP of Mississippi, 2026)
Episode 2139
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film, Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned th…
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Hidden Scrolls, Buried Bibles: How We Discover the Sacred Past with Eva Mroczek (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 2137
From the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Zohar, this is the untold story behind our enduring fascination with lost and found religious texts…
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Standing Up to Trump: Canada and the Future of U.S.-Canadian Relations
Episode 2132
How has Donald Trump’s return to the White House transformed the relationship between Canada and the United States? In this episode of International …
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026)
Episode 2128
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal…
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World with Elizabeth F. S. Roberts (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2119
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her m…
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Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)
Episode 2121
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread…
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Wound Archive with Anna Veprinksa (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine's Quill, 2026)
Episode 2130
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Anna Veprinksa about her book of poetry, Wound Archive (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine's Quill,…
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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2131
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, an…
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