Podcast Episodes

Sean Bedell, "Shoebox" (Now or Never, 2025)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author and retired paramedic and fire captain, Sean Paul Bedell, about his novel, Shoebox (NoN P…

4 weeks, 2 days ago

Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

What did slavery actually look like in the everyday lives of Jews in the medieval Middle East? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with histor…

4 weeks, 2 days ago

Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Today, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Humble though t…

1 month ago

Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?

Thursday, March 12—Inaugurating a series of programs to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, authors and scholars Michael …

1 month ago

Alice Martin, "Westward Women" (St. Martins Press, 2026)

It starts with an itch.
In homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.
Tired. Blank. Restless.
Drawn to the Pacific…

1 month ago

Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China

What happens to the environment when the state enters previously self-governed villages in rural China? We explore this question in the Blang mountai…

1 month ago

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stabi…

1 month ago

Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.

Peasant farming was once an inte…

1 month ago

Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)

Hiromi Ito author of The Thorn Puller (originally published in Japanese as Toge-nuki Jizo: Shin Sugamo Jizo engi) came to national attention in Japan…

1 month ago

Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)

Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? For more than eight decades, historians have offered one dominant answer: Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Un…

1 month ago