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Back to SearchScott Peeples, "How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan" (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 1747
Scott Peeple's How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan (Reaktion, 2026) chronicles Bob Dylan’s rise from apprenticeships in Minneapolis cafés and Greenwi…
2 months, 1 week ago
Christopher R. Rogers, "My City Need Something" (Common Notions, 2026)
Episode 1746
Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a con…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1745
Writer Naomi Kanakia has spent her adult life reading the so-called “great books,” those classic works of literature which are–depending who you ask–…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1744
In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Cycling Cities: Lisbon and Tehran with M. Luísa Sousa and Kazem Afradi
Episode 1743
Cycling Cities is a series of books that investigates 150 years of cycling policy and practice across fifty cities in twenty-five countries, and keep…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The War of the Worlds
Episode 1742
In light of the dismal Disclosure Day (2026), we return to two films that show Spielberg tackling alien visitation (or invasion) stories while at the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)
Episode 1741
How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclave
In the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movie…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Elijah Wald, "Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1740
Rock 'n' roll appeared in the 1950s as the high-energy, electrically amplified music of young dancers and listeners, first in the United States and t…
3 months ago
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
Episode 1739
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repr…
3 months ago
David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Episode 1737
What made a generation of Jewish artists and intellectuals transform American culture? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with acclaimed cu…
3 months, 1 week ago