Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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episode 53: Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
episode 627: Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Spain" (Robinson, 2019)
A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...
episode 378: T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
episode 14: Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
episode 55: Jonathan Robker, "Balaam in Text and Tradition" (Mohr Siebeck, 2019)
Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?
episode 217: Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018)
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
episode 48: Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...
Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, 2017)
Cash explores the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike...
episode 113: Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue," Part 2 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...
episode 606: Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridge UP, 2009)
Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay,..