Episodes Author interviews 128 Recall This Story: Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight” (JP) May 9, 2024 Helena De Bres 127* Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF) April 19, 2024May 12, 2024 Author interviews 126 E.G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF) April 4, 2024May 12, 2024 Uncategorized 125*David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld March 21, 2024May 12, 2024 ethnonationalism 124 The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP) March 7, 2024May 12, 2024 Author interviews 123* Sheila Heti speaks about awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP) February 16, 2024 Brandeis Colleagues in conversation 122 The Culture Trap, with sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP) February 1, 2024May 12, 2024 Ajantha Subramanian 121* Ajantha Subramanian on the Caste of Merit (EF,JP) January 18, 2024 Ajantha Subramanian 120 Violent Majorities Roundup (Ajantha, Lori, JP) January 4, 2024 Ajantha Subramanian 119 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2: Natasha Roth-Rowland (with Lori, Ajantha) December 14, 2023 Ajantha Subramanian 118 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1: Balmurli Natrajan (with Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian) December 7, 2023 Global Policing 117* Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP) November 16, 2023 Anthropology 116 “We are all latecomers”: Martin Puchner’s Culture (JP, EF) November 2, 2023 Rebroadcast 115* Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP) October 19, 2023 Book History 114 John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames) October 5, 2023 Brandeis Colleagues in conversation 113* David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF) September 21, 2023 Anthropology 112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL]) September 7, 2023 Author interviews 111* Samuel R Delany, Nevèrÿon and beyond (JP) August 17, 2023 Author interviews 110* Novel Dialogue: Joshua Cohen (JP, Eugene Sheppard) August 4, 2023August 17, 2023 Adaner Usmani 109* Recall This Buck with Thomas Piketty (JP, Adaner) July 20, 2023August 17, 2023 Chris Desan 108* Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck ) July 6, 2023July 21, 2023 Art 107* Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP) June 15, 2023July 21, 2023 Collaboration 106 Musical Collaboration: Francisco del Pino (JP) June 1, 2023June 8, 2023 Books In Dark Times 105* David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP) May 18, 2023June 8, 2023 Collaboration 104 Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada: Journalistic Collaboration (JP) May 4, 2023June 8, 2023 Books In Dark Times 103* Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP) April 20, 2023May 7, 2023 Podcast 102 Sassan Tabatabai: poetry, observation, and form (EF, JP) April 6, 2023April 13, 2023 Anthropology 101* Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP) March 9, 2023April 13, 2023 Anthropology 100 Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP) March 2, 2023April 13, 2023 data visualization 99* Gael McGill Visualizes Data (JP) February 16, 2023April 13, 2023 data visualization 98 Horton’s Cosmic Zoom Room (EF, JP) February 2, 2023April 13, 2023 Books In Dark Times 97* Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP) January 19, 2023April 13, 2023 History of Science 96 Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP) January 5, 2023January 19, 2023 Author interviews 95* Kim Stanley Robinson, Books in Dark Times (JP) December 15, 2022January 19, 2023 Uncategorized 94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP,NS, HY) December 2, 2022January 19, 2023 populism 93* Quinn Slobodian on Ethnonationalism since 1973 (JP, EF) November 17, 2022January 19, 2023 Anthropology 92 Janet McIntosh on “Let’s Go Brandon,” QAnon and alt-right language (EF, JP) November 3, 2022January 19, 2023 Uncategorized 91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP) October 20, 2022November 15, 2022 Uncategorized 90 Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP) October 6, 2022November 15, 2022 Author interviews 89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP) September 15, 2022November 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, 2022November 15, 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 Load more posts Loading… Something went wrong. 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Author interviews 128 Recall This Story: Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight” (JP) May 9, 2024
Author interviews 126 E.G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF) April 4, 2024May 12, 2024
Brandeis Colleagues in conversation 122 The Culture Trap, with sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP) February 1, 2024May 12, 2024
Ajantha Subramanian 119 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2: Natasha Roth-Rowland (with Lori, Ajantha) December 14, 2023
Ajantha Subramanian 118 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1: Balmurli Natrajan (with Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian) December 7, 2023
Rebroadcast 115* Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP) October 19, 2023
Brandeis Colleagues in conversation 113* David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF) September 21, 2023
Anthropology 112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL]) September 7, 2023
Author interviews 110* Novel Dialogue: Joshua Cohen (JP, Eugene Sheppard) August 4, 2023August 17, 2023
Collaboration 104 Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada: Journalistic Collaboration (JP) May 4, 2023June 8, 2023
Author interviews 95* Kim Stanley Robinson, Books in Dark Times (JP) December 15, 2022January 19, 2023
Uncategorized 94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP,NS, HY) December 2, 2022January 19, 2023
populism 93* Quinn Slobodian on Ethnonationalism since 1973 (JP, EF) November 17, 2022January 19, 2023
Anthropology 92 Janet McIntosh on “Let’s Go Brandon,” QAnon and alt-right language (EF, JP) November 3, 2022January 19, 2023
Uncategorized 91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP) October 20, 2022November 15, 2022
Uncategorized 90 Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP) October 6, 2022November 15, 2022
Author interviews 89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP) September 15, 2022November 15, 2022
Filmmakers 88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic (JP) September 1, 2022September 15, 2022
Essays, Announcements and Other Non-Podcast Posts On Rajiv Mohabir, the Chutney Wordsmith May 28, 2022November 15, 2022
Circe with Madeline Miller Retelling and Balancing: Circe’s Journey from the Margins to the Center April 28, 2022May 5, 2022
Anna Vaninskaya Twilight, Tolkien, and the Problem of Immortality: On (The Contemporary Answer To) Fairy Stories April 14, 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
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
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 61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP) August 5, 2021September 2, 2021