Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 230
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life co…
3 years, 4 months ago
Improvisation and Communication: A Discussion with Laura Lindenfeld
Episode 95
Listen to this interview of Laura Lindenfeld, Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. We talk about how improvisation h…
3 years, 4 months ago
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hund…
3 years, 4 months ago
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)
Episode 83
Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos, was first published in 1988. In it the author brilliantly highlighted many of the sorry truths those of us who teac…
3 years, 5 months ago
“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India
Episode 160
Have you ever come across a post in social media which says, “The claim is disputed by third-party fact checkers”? Or have you ever come across the t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media" (Dutton, 2020)
Episode 208
In The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Founding Fathers to Fake News (Dutton, 2020), Har…
3 years, 5 months ago
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects
Episode 158
What is the journalism culture in Vietnam? What role does Sweden play in the transformation of Vietnamese journalism? How has Swedish media aid fulfi…
3 years, 6 months ago
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
Episode 94
How should humans respond to our ongoing human-made climate catastrophe? To answer that question, Recall this Book turned to prize-winning climate re…
3 years, 6 months ago
Robert J. Savage, "Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 30
Robert J. Savage is a professor in the Boston College History Department and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies program…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jeffrey Bilbro, "Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News" (IVP Academic, 2021)
Episode 211
Whenever we reach for our phones or scan a newspaper to get caught up, we are being not merely informed but also formed. News consumption can shape o…
3 years, 7 months ago