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episode 47: Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Hefferman explores the people and organizations who aren’t daunted by uncertainty: ‘We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future...
episode 73: Tim Bruce, "Devi Mahatmyam: The Glory of the Goddess" (Raconteurs Audio LLP, 2020)
For millions worldwide, the Devi Mahatmyam is of central spiritual importance and of equal cultural significance within Indian Sanskrit literature to the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, and the Ramayana...
episode 86: Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...
episode 13: Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world’s most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel’s famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor...
episode 39: Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Voyager, 2020)
In a set up reminiscent of the show Orphan Black, four feisty young women struggle to make their way in the world, unaware that they are related...
episode 114: Tamara McClintock Greenberg, "Treating Complex Trauma: Combined Theories and Methods" (Springer, 2020)
Relationship problems, struggles with substance abuse, poor memory, and difficulties with emotions are typical symptoms of complex trauma—yet many traumatized individuals have no idea their symptoms share a common cause...
episode 142: Melissa Valentine, "The Names of All the Flowers: A Memoir" (The Feminist Press, 2020)
Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.
episode 200: Earle H. Waugh, “Al Rashid Mosque: Building Canadian Muslim Communities” (U Alberta Press, 2018)
In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...
episode 201: R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewish American Literature" (MLA, 2020)
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American”.
episode 85: Joshua Kotin, "Utopias of One" (Princeton UP, 2017)
In "utopias of one," the authors at one and the same time publish for an external audience, but sketch out modes of living and being that are in important ways both non-accessible and non-replicable....