Episodes

Author interviews

89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)

September 15, 2022

Filmmakers

88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic (JP)

September 1, 2022September 15, 2022

Filmmakers

*87 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)

August 18, 2022September 15, 2022

Author interviews

86 Dana Stevens Keaton (JP EF)

August 4, 2022September 15, 2022

Author interviews

*85 Pu Wang and JP unpack their Cixin Liu interview

July 21, 2022August 16, 2022

Author interviews

*84 Cixin Liu (JP, Pu Wang)

July 8, 2022August 16, 2022

Aftermath

*83 Plotz and Ferry on Zadie Smith

June 16, 2022July 20, 2022

Author interviews

*82 Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)

June 2, 2022July 20, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

On Rajiv Mohabir, the Chutney Wordsmith

May 28, 2022May 29, 2022

David Ferry.

*81 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

May 26, 2022July 20, 2022

Author interviews

80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

May 5, 2022July 20, 2022

Circe with Madeline Miller

Retelling and Balancing: Circe’s Journey from the Margins to the Center

April 28, 2022May 5, 2022

Author interviews

79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)

April 21, 2022May 5, 2022

Anna Vaninskaya

Twilight, Tolkien, and the Problem of Immortality: On (The Contemporary Answer To) Fairy Stories

April 14, 2022May 5, 2022

Anna Vaninskaya

78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever: Anna Vaninskaya (EF, JP)

April 7, 2022May 5, 2022

Anthropology

77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson (EF, JP)

March 17, 2022April 14, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Land-Grab Universities and Me

March 10, 2022April 14, 2022

data visualization

76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)

March 3, 2022April 14, 2022

poetry

75* Sean Hill talks about bodies in space and time with Elizabeth Bradfield

February 18, 2022March 3, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Roots and Ruins: On George Kalogeris’s Winthropos

February 10, 2022March 3, 2022

poetry

74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places (EF, JP)

February 3, 2022March 3, 2022

Crossover/Partner

73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)

January 27, 2022March 17, 2022

Author interviews

72 Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP )

January 20, 2022March 17, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Jennifer Egan, Reverberator

January 13, 2022January 20, 2022

Author interviews

71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: fiction as streaming, genre as portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)

January 6, 2022March 17, 2022

Anthropology

70 Recall this Buck 5: “Studying Up” with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)

December 16, 2021January 20, 2022

Anthropology

Points of Comparison in Time: Methods in the Anthropology of Finance

December 9, 2021December 16, 2021

Anthropology

69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on private equity (JP, EF)

December 2, 2021March 17, 2022

Author interviews

68* Martin Puchner: Gilgamesh to Amazon (EF, JP)

November 18, 2021June 22, 2022

Book History

The Novel in the Age of Amazon and the Commercialization of Culture

November 11, 2021November 18, 2021

Author interviews

67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon (JP, EF, 11/4)

November 4, 2021January 21, 2022

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Gina T, John P)

October 21, 2021January 21, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Another Perspective on Non-Human Minds

October 14, 2021October 21, 2021

New Books Network

65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)

October 7, 2021January 21, 2022

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Everything Changes, Nothing Changes…RtB joins up with NBN

October 6, 2021October 8, 2021

Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts

Recall this Book’s new monthly schedule, week by week

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

Brahmin Left

The Return of Sprezzatura: a 16th-Century Perspective on the Brahmin Left

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

Adaner Usmani

64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth

September 16, 2021October 8, 2021

Adaner Usmani

63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)

September 2, 2021September 16, 2021

Adaner Usmani

62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)

August 19, 2021September 2, 2021

Adaner Usmani

61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)

August 5, 2021September 2, 2021

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)

July 8, 2021August 11, 2021

Pardis Dabashi

59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)

June 24, 2021July 8, 2021

Caleb Crain

58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)

June 17, 2021July 6, 2021

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’” (JP)

June 10, 2021July 6, 2021

Merve Emre

56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”

June 3, 2021July 6, 2021

Crossover/Partner

June is all about Forgotten Favorites: Introducing “Recall This B-Side”

May 31, 2021July 6, 2021

David Ferry.

55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

May 27, 2021July 6, 2021

Author interviews

54 Crossover Month #3: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Elizabeth McMahon, JP)

April 22, 2021July 6, 2021

Crossover/Partner

53 Crossover Month #2: Novel Dialogue (Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Robbins, JP)

April 8, 2021July 6, 2021

Crossover/Partner

52 Crossover Month #1: “High Theory” and the Pastoral (Kim, Saronik, JP)

March 25, 2021April 9, 2021

Adaner Usmani

51 Recall This Buck 3: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Ideology (Adaner, JP)

February 18, 2021April 8, 2021

Global Policing

50 Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy; or, Why Words Matter

February 5, 2021April 8, 2021

David Cunningham

49 The Capitol Insurrection and Asymmetrical Policing: David Cunningham (EF, JP)

January 21, 2021February 3, 2021

Lisa Dillman

48 Transform, Not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation (PW, EF)

January 14, 2021February 3, 2021

data visualization

47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)

December 17, 2020December 18, 2020

Leah Price

46 Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)

December 3, 2020December 18, 2020

Global Policing

45 Global Policing 3 Laurence Ralph: Reckoning with Police Violence

October 29, 2020December 3, 2020

Adaner Usmani

44 Adaner Usmani: Racism as idea, Racism as power relation (EF, JP)

October 1, 2020December 7, 2020

Podcast

43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)

August 6, 2020December 20, 2020

Money

42 Recall This Buck 2: Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)

July 30, 2020October 15, 2020

Books In Dark Times

41 RTB Books in Dark Times 13: Lorraine Daston, Historian of Science (JP)

July 24, 2020October 22, 2020

Anthropology

40 Global Policing 1: Hayal Akarsu on Turkish Community Policing (EF, JP)

July 16, 2020December 18, 2020

Books In Dark Times

39 RTB Books in Dark Times 12: Carlo Rotella (JP)

July 9, 2020December 18, 2020

Beth Blum and Self-Help

38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)

July 6, 2020December 18, 2020

Books In Dark Times

37 RTB Books In Dark Times 11: Elizabeth Bradfield (JP)

June 25, 2020December 18, 2020

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

36 Policing and White Power: (EF, JP) Global Policing Series

June 17, 2020December 18, 2020

Books In Dark Times

35 RTB Books In Dark Times 10: Martin Puchner

June 11, 2020December 19, 2020

Anthropology

34 The Caribbean and Vectors of Warfare: Vincent Brown (EF, JP)

June 4, 2020December 19, 2020

Author interviews

33 RTB Books in Dark Times 9: Ben Fountain (JP)

May 28, 2020December 19, 2020

Books In Dark Times

32 RTB Books in Dark Times 8: Paul Saint-Amour (JP 5/20)

May 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Books In Dark Times

Pandemic in the Pacific: Kurt Vonnegut’s COVID novel

May 18, 2020July 21, 2020

Books In Dark Times

31 RTB Books in Dark Times 7: Vanessa Smith (JP)

May 14, 2020July 21, 2020

In Focus

30 In Focus: Nir Eyal on (the deontology of) “Challenge Testing” a Covid Vaccine

May 7, 2020February 17, 2021

Author interviews

29 RTB Books in Dark Times 6: Kim Stanley Robinson (JP)

April 30, 2020October 15, 2020

Books In Dark Times

28 RTB Books in Dark Times 5: Seeta Chaganti (JP)

April 23, 2020October 15, 2020

Books In Dark Times

A Book in Dark Times: Albert Camus, “The Plague”

April 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Books In Dark Times

27 RTB Books in Dark Times 4: David and John Plotz

April 16, 2020October 15, 2020

Books In Dark Times

26 RTB Books in Dark Times 3: Plotz/Ferry

April 9, 2020October 15, 2020

Books In Dark Times

25 RTB Books in Dark Times 2: Stephen McCauley (JP)

April 2, 2020October 15, 2020