Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoan Judge, “Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press” (U of California Press, 2015)
Joan Judge‘s wonderful new book takes readers into the pages of the Funu shibao (the Women’s Eastern Times), a “Shanghai-based, nationally distribut…
10 years, 4 months ago
Peter J. Gloviczki, “Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
Humans have coped with tragedy using ritual and memorials since the Neolithic era. Doka called a memorial a space invested with meaning, “set aside t…
10 years, 5 months ago
Candis Callison, “How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke UP, 2014)
Candis Callison‘s timely and fascinating new book considers climate change as a form of life and articulates how journalists, scientists, religious g…
10 years, 9 months ago
D. D. Guttenplan, “The Nation: A Biography” (The Nation Co., 2015)
The Nation magazine turned 150 this year, a striking achievement for a publication that is firmly on the left of the political spectrum. It was found…
10 years, 9 months ago
Parks M. Coble, “China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Parks M. Coble‘s new book is a wonderful study of memory, war, and history that takes the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 and its aftermath as its foc…
10 years, 9 months ago
Anita M. Harris, “Ithaca Diaries: Coming of Age in the 1960s” (Cambridge Common Press, 2014)
Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll. That’s the stereotypical view of the 1960s. But in her memoir, Ithaca Diaries, Coming of Age in the 1960s (Cambridge Com…
10 years, 11 months ago
Richard Kreitner, “The Almanac: 150 Years of The Nation (5)”
Helen Keller, Franz Kafka and Silent Cal Coolidge appear in this week’s Almanac, a blog to celebrate the 150thanniversary of The Nation, America’s ol…
11 years ago
Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (4)
When Star Wars opened in 1977, Robert Hatch, film reviewer for The Nation magazine, wrote that it “belongs in the sub-basement, or interstellar comic…
11 years ago
Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (3)
The Nation magazine, a beacon of the cultural and political left, is celebrating 150 years of publishing. As part of its celebration, it’s publishing…
11 years ago
Richard Kreitner, The Nation Almanac (2)
The Nation magazine is one of America’s most distinguished journalistic enterprises featuring the writing and work of such notable people as Calvin T…
11 years ago