Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
Episode 604
Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jew…
1 year, 4 months ago
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
Episode 333
What were two Irish sisters doing in Russia during the early years of the nineteenth century, editing the French-language memoirs of a princess who h…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)
Episode 31
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk.
As explor…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
Episode 167
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetite…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 372
Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge t…
1 year, 5 months ago
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Episode 330
Today I talked to Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal about About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
Pioneering Indian Muslim …
1 year, 5 months ago
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 236
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author wh…
1 year, 5 months ago
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 287
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his pe…
1 year, 5 months ago
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 21
How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the ca…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
Episode 19
The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand i…
1 year, 5 months ago