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Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
May 30, 202647 min
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
May 30, 202649 min
“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo
May 30, 202641 min
Charlie Qiuli Xue and Arwen Yingting Chen, "American-Designed Shopping Malls in China" (Hong Kong UP, 2026)
May 30, 202652 min
Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell, "Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration" (U California Press, 2026)
May 30, 202653 min
Andrew Demshuk, "The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2026)
May 30, 20261h 24m
Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
May 29, 202626 min
Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)
May 29, 202624 min
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
May 29, 202640 min
Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 29, 20261h 10m
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
May 29, 2026
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
May 29, 202620 min
Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
May 29, 202633 min
Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
May 29, 202637 min
Radio ReOrient 14:9: Racializing the Ummah, with Rhea Rahman, hosted by Saeed Khan and Claudia Radiven
May 29, 20261h 3m
Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 29, 202651 min
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28, 20261h 35m
The Instigators
May 28, 202655 min
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development" (Routledge, 2026)
May 28, 202635 min
Frances Kneupper, "Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28, 202658 min
Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)
May 28, 202642 min
Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)
May 28, 202658 min
Chunmei Du, "Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians in the Aftermath of World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 28, 202655 min
Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 28, 202645 min
Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
May 28, 20261h 6m
Barnaby B. Barratt, "Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2026)
May 28, 202655 min
Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine with Louise Brogan
May 27, 2026
Damien Van Puyvelde, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service" (Georgetown UP, 2026)
May 27, 202654 min
Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
May 27, 202658 min
Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)
May 27, 202636 min
Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri, "Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future" (Ibidem Press, 2025)
May 27, 202641 min
David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
May 27, 202641 min
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 27, 20261h 9m
Judith Hill, "Gothic: Building Castles in Post-Union Ireland" (Four Courts Press, 2026)
May 27, 202656 min
Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)
May 27, 20261h 18m
Kanika Singh, "The Story of a Sikh Museum: Heritage, Politics, Popular Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 27, 202639 min
Learning Languages on Social Media
May 26, 202637 min
Andrea Zarafshon Moore, "Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory" (Fordham UP, 2025)
May 26, 20261h 9m
What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
May 26, 202655 min
Patrick Wyman, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)
May 26, 202653 min
Angela Byrne, "Finding Mary: The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844" (Four Courts Press, 2025)
May 26, 202638 min
Mapping a New Politics in For All Mankind
May 26, 20261h 43m
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
May 26, 2026
Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?
May 26, 202646 min
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
May 26, 2026
chaun webster, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" (Greywolf, 2026)
May 26, 2026
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
May 26, 20261h 12m
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
May 25, 20263 min
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 25, 20263 min
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
May 25, 202650 min