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Back to SearchVanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Episode 111
Vanessa R. Sasson's book The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women (Equinox, 2023) is a retelling of the story of the first Buddhist women's…
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Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 422
Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--re…
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Michael Hurley, "Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight" (NUS Press, 2025)
Episode 174
Bangkok is one of the world’s great cities, and the central artery of that city is the Chaophraya River. Michael Hurley’s book, Waterways of Bangkok:…
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Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 348
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the comple…
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The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
TCP’s inaugural episode features Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao, two scholars whose academic work and activism have helped to set the parameters of the…
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Gaoheng Zhang, "Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities (Fordham UP, 2025) by Dr. Gaoheng Zhang designs a novel analytical framework to a…
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Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 240
The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secr…
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Episode 666
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contribu…
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 87
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at o…
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Princess Joy L. Perry, "This Here Is Love" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny.
As the seventeent…
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