Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCinderella: A Cultural History with Michelle Anya Anjirbag (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026)
Episode 2619
A glass slipper, a fairy godmother, a transformed pumpkin, lizard footmen and seamstress mice: these familiar images evoke a very particular story, o…
2 hours ago
Save a Seat For Me: Notes on American Fatherhood with Mark Anthony Neal (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Episode 2618
From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is Mark Anthon…
3 days, 3 hours ago
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War with Jeongmin Kim (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 2617
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War (Stanford UP, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities…
5 days, 3 hours ago
Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece with Todd Berliner (U Texas Press, 2026)
Episode 2616
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey an…
1 week, 2 days ago
El Salvador Reborn with Mellissa Linton-Villafranco (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Episode 2615
El Salvador Reborn: Abortion, Environment, and the Politics of Survival in a Postwar Nation ( examines the nation’s efforts to reshape its identity a…
1 week, 3 days ago
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them with Jeffrey H. Cohen (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 2613
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them (U Texas Press, 2025) is an approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, s…
1 week, 3 days ago
Radio ReOrient 15:3: The Othered Woman, with Shahed Ezaydi, hosted by Amina Easat-Daas and Chella Ward
Episode 2612
In this episode, Amina and Chella had a wide ranging conversation with Shahed Ezaydi about her recent book, which explores the interconnectedness bet…
1 week, 3 days ago
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain (Random House, 2026)
Episode 2614
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (…
1 week, 4 days ago
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Episode 153
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation…
1 week, 4 days ago
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
Episode 2611
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, her sweeping exploration of complaint a…
2 weeks, 4 days ago