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Back to SearchAbout 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Episode 250
Henry Christophe was born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and fought to overthrow the British in North America before helpi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 270
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Rog…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
Episode 282
Michael Ray Richardson was a star in the making. After a stellar collegiate career at the University of Montana, where he was voted first team All-Bi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Episode 248
Our book is: Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts To Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Citadel Press, 2025) by Dr. Rebecca Brenner …
1 year, 9 months ago
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 176
We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook wo…
1 year, 9 months ago