New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Paying for Sex in a Digital Age

US and UK Perspectives

Teela Sanders, Barbara G. Brents, and Chris Wakefield

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet. The data is drawn from two large surveys of sex workers' clients in the US and UK. The book presents descriptive baseline data on client engagement with online platforms, demographics and patterns …
Latin American Studies

The Conquered

Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity

Eleni Kefala

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Eleni Kefala's book The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021) probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of …
Fantasy

The Bone Shard Daughter

The Drowning Empire Book One

Andrea Stewart

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Today I talked to Andrea Stewart about The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One (Hachette UK, 2020). In a world of floating islands, various narrators try to achieve or avoid …
Political Science

Unceasing Militant

The Life of Mary Church Terrell

Alison M. Parker

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Dr. Alison M. Parker’s new book Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) explores the life of civil rights activist and feminist, Mary …
Science

The Beauty of Chemistry

Art, Wonder, and Science

Philip Ball

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials …
Academic Life

Pandemic Perspectives: Working Remotely

A Discussion with Raj Balkaran

Raj Balkaran

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Vasco Pedro

CEO and Entrepreneur

Hosted by Richard Lucas
Vasco Pedro talks about growing up in Portugal, the lessons learned in military boarding school from the age of 10, his love of coding and building things, and how he …
Medicine

More Than Medicine

Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State

LaTonya J. Trotter

Hosted by Claire Clark
In More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State (Cornell UP, 2020), LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of …
Food

American Advertising Cookbooks

How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O

Christina Ward

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Christina Ward’s newest book American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O (Process Media, 2019) examines a familiar but understudied sub-genre of commercially published cookbooks …
Performing Arts

Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

Kate Dossett

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Kate Dossett's book Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (UNC Press, 2020) turns conventional understandings of the Federal Theatre Project on its head. This book shines a light on the …
Sports

Singled Out

The True Story of Glenn Burke

Andrew Maraniss

Hosted by Paul Knepper
On October 2nd, 1977, Glenn Burke, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, made history without even swinging a bat. When his teammate Dusty Baker hit a historic home run, Glenn …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Beyond the Protest Square

Digital Media and Augmented Dissent

Tetyana Lokot

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Tetyana Lokot's new book Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public discontent and offers …
Philosophy

Cassirer

Samantha Matherne

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a leading neo-Kantian who developed a systematic view of how we construct and experience culture, widely construed to include mathematics, science, religion, myth, art, politics, ethics …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Making Sense of the West Bengal Elections

A Discussion with Niladri Chatterjee, Zaad Mahmoud and Arild Engelsen Ruud

Niladri Chatterjee, Zaad Mahmoud and Arild Engelsen Ruud

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In this episode Kennth Bo Nielsen of Asianettverket at the University of Oslo is joined by Niladri Chatterjee (University of Oslo), Zaad Mahmoud (Presidency University) and Arild Engelsen Ruud (University …
Book of the Day/ Cover Story

Can we Disagree Online Respectfully?

A Discussion with Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie

Hosted by Agata Popeda
In this episode, we are talking to a British writer Ian Leslie, a journalist and author of acclaimed books on human behavior. His latest book, Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes (Harper Business, 2021), is about how to disagree better. Ian regularly publishes in The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Economist. He co-hosted the podcast series Polarized and created a BBC radio comedy series. The piece we …
Systems and Cybernetics

Cybernetic-Existentialism

Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance

Steve Dixon

Hosted by Tom Scholte
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, was communicated to the general public by a handful …
Sociology

Capable Women, Incapable States

Negotiating Violence and Rights in India

Poulami Roychowdhury

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system, Roychowdhury provides a unique lens on rights …
Literature

All Sorrows Can Be Borne

Loren Stephens

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In All Sorrows Can Be Borne (Rare Bird Books, 2021), Loren Stephens tells the story, inspired by true events, of a Japanese woman who survives the bombing of Hiroshima, joins her half-sister …
Science

Exhale

Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant

David Weill

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant (Post Hill Press, 2021) is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and …
Public Policy

How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness

Innovations That Work

Linda Gibbs, Jay Bainbridge, Muzzy Rosenblatt, and Tamiru Mammo

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness: Innovations That Work (U California Press, 2021) provides a first-hand account of the challenges of homelessness and how cities have used innovation and …
Medicine

The Problem of Alzheimer's

How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Jason Karlawish

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. 16 million caregivers are responsible for …
Jewish Studies

Borders and Belonging

A Memoir

Mira Sucharov

Hosted by Claire English
Mira Sucharov’s new book, Borders and Belonging: A Memoir (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), is a work that takes seriously the feminist adage that the “personal is political,” and vice versa. Through an …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

How Design Makes the World

Scott Berkun

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can …
Economics

The Great Crash 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

Hosted by Tim Jones
"A good knowledge of what happened in 1929 remains our best safeguard against the recurrence of the more unhappy events of those days", wrote John Kenneth Galbraith in The Great …
Christian Studies

Mary Magdalene Revealed

The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

Meggan Watterson

Hosted by Meg Gambino
In her rich book, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, The Feminist Gospel, and the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet (Hay House, 2019), Meggan Watterson takes us deep into the heart of Mary …
Psychoanalysis

A People's History of Psychoanalysis

From Freud to Liberation Psychology

Daniel Jose Gaztambide

Hosted by J.J. Mull
In this episode, host J.J. Mull interviews Daniel José Gaztambide about his book, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology (Lexington Books, 2021). The project traces a …
Book of the Day/ Animal Studies

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Michelle Nijhuis

Hosted by Jenny Splitter
In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Norton, 2021), acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement’s history: from early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle …
Latin American Studies

Ganhadores

A greve negra de 1857 na Bahia

João José Reis

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Um retrato original da Bahia no século XIX, num livro cheio de movimento e vozes, sobretudo da gente negra. Em Ganhadores: A Greve Negra de 1857 na Bahia (Companhia das Letras, 2019) …
Law

The Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice

A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Courts

Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson

Hosted by Jane Richards
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Courts (Oxford UP, 2018) brings together an extraordinary collection of data and analysis which concerns …
Anthropology

Television and the Afghan Culture Wars

Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists

Wazhmah Osman

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era …
Middle Eastern Studies

Turkey

A Past Against History

Christine M. Philliou

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Christine M. Philliou's Turkey: A Past Against History (University of California Press, 2021) challenges conventional understandings about the transition from the Ottoman Empire to Republic of Turkey. From its earliest days, the dominant …
Latin American Studies

Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

William Garrett Acree

Hosted by Candela Marini
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these  stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural …
Art

The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader

Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses

Jordana Moore Saggese

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader (University of California Press, 2021), Jordana Moore Saggese provides the first comprehensive sourcebook on the artist, closing gaps that have until now limited the sustained …
African Studies

Becoming Rwandan

Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen

S. Garnett Russell

Hosted by Susan Thomson
In Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Rutgers UP, 2020), S. Garnett Russell argues that although the Rwandan government makes use of global discourses in national policy documents …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with Mary Marci

President of Dominican University and author of "The Small College Imperative"

Hosted by David Finegold
Mary Marcy discusses her influential new book, The Small College Imperative: Models for Sustainable Futures (Stylus, 2020) which lays out five different models that small colleges and universities can use to …
History

Stampede

Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike

Brian Castner

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in …
Science, Technology, and Society

Freezing Fertility

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

Lucy van de Wiel

Hosted by Ann Choi
How does egg freezing reshape our conception of time, aging and fertility? In her new monograph, Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging (NYU Press, 2020) Dr. Lucy van …
History

That Most Precious Merchandise

The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

Hannah Barker

Hosted by Jonathan Megerian
Before the Transatlantic slave trade ravaged the western coast of Africa, immense numbers of persons were taken from their homes and carried across the Black and Mediterranean Seas as involuntary …
Life Wisdom

Bhakti Marg Swami on Devotion

ISKON Leader

Bhaktimarga Swami

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
What does it mean to be a Swami? This podcast features words of wisdom from ISKCON Leader Bhakti Marg Swami. In drawing from his ISCON journey which began in 1973 …
Mormonism

50 Relics of the Restoration

Mary Jane Woodger and Casey Paul Griffiths

Hosted by Daniel Stone
Just as early Christians sought out pieces of the cross or searched for the location of Noah's Ark, it is natural for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of …
Education

The New PhD

How to Build a Better Graduate Education

Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch

Hosted by Amanda Jeanne Swain
Whether and how to reform, indeed to transform graduate education has been a matter for debate, discussion and experimentation over the past 30 years – at least. In The New …
Book of the Day/ Popular Culture

From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole

A Life with Television

Kathleen Collins

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In her new book From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television (University of Mississippi Press, 2021) TV scholar and fan Kathleen Collins reflects on how her life as a consumer of television has intersected with the cultural and technological evolution of the medium itself. In a narrative bridging television studies, memoir, and comic, literary nonfiction, Collins takes readers alongside her from the 1960s through to the present, reminiscing and commiserating …
Political Science

Cruelty As Citizenship

How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

Cristina Beltrán

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Cristina Beltrán has written a thoughtful and interrogating analysis of the concept of citizenship, particularly in the United States, and how the history of the United States as a country …
Christian Studies

Liberty for All

Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age

Andrew T. Walker

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble …
Gender Studies

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami

Hosted by Jana Byars
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is the extraordinary story …
Academic Life

College Belonging

A Conversation with Lisa M. Nunn

Lisa M. Nunn

Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Psychology

ACT Daily Journal

Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Diana Hill and Debbie Sorensen

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Today I talked to Debbie Sorensen about her book, co-authored with Diana Hill, ACT Daily Journal: Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (New Harbinger, 2021). When …
Science

Breath from Salt

A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever

Bijal P. Trivedi

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type—from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's …
Economic and Business History

Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century

The House of Houqua and the Canton System

John Wong

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), John D. Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape …
Biblical Studies

Signs of the Messiah

An Introduction to John’s Gospel

Andreas J. Köstenberger

Hosted by Jonathan Wright
In Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John’s Gospel (Lexham Press, 2021), Andreas J. Köstenberger—veteran New Testament scholar and expert on the Gospel of John—guides readers through John and …
SSEAC Stories

Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific

An interview with Adrian Vickers

Adrian Vickers

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Australia has always been multilingual. Yet English language sources have dominated political and popular discourses over the last few centuries, overshadowing the significant contribution made by other languages and cultures …
Asian Review of Books

Turkish Kaleidoscope

Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence

Jenny White

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The scene is Turkey in the mid-to-late Seventies. A young male college student hops onto a bus. He sits next to a cute female student from his class, but before …
National Security

Bullets Not Ballots

Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Why do liberal great powers like the United States struggle to defeat insurgencies across the globe? In her new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare (Cornell University Press …
Biography

Footsteps of Federer

A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts

Dave Seminara

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Dave Seminara about his book Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts (Post Hill Press, 2021) Dave Seminara is a writer, former …
Biblical Studies

Yahweh

Origin of a Desert God

Robert D. Miller II

Hosted by Michael Morales
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other …
Book of the Day/ Public Policy

What We Mean by the American Dream

Stories We Tell about Meritocracy

Doron Taussig

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up, in our working lives, roughly where we deserve to be based on our efforts and abilities—in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea …
Literature

The Best of Brevity

Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Dinty W. Moore and Zoë Bossiere, the editors of the new anthology The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction (Rose Metal Press, 2020). The …
Literature

The Wife Who Wasn't

Alta Ifland

Hosted by Steven Seegel
An exhilaratingly comical, crosscultural debut novel, The Wife Who Wasn't (New Europe Books, 2021) brings together an eccentric community from the hills of Santa Barbara, California, and a family of Russians …
LGBTQ+ Studies

The Healing Otherness Handbook

Overcome the Trauma of Identity-Based Bullying and Find Power in Your Difference

Stacee L. Reicherzer

Hosted by John Marszalek
In The Healing Otherness Handbook: Overcome the Trauma of Identity-Based Bullying and Find Power in Your Difference (New Harbinger, 2021), Stacee Reicherzer—a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma …
Southeast Asian Studies

Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period

The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)

Farabi Fakih

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liberal democracy. Indonesia’s experiences with such …
Performing Arts

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Simon Critchley

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Simon Critchley's Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Vintage, 2020) does not offer a comprehensive theory of tragedy. Instead, it takes issue with the bland simplifications that philosophers have offered in place of a …
African American Studies

Impossible Stories

On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation

John Murillo III

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation (Ohio State UP, 2021), John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within …
Literature

The Portrait

A Novel

Ilaria Bernardini

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The Portrait is a story full of ambiguity and suspense, one that works on many different levels and holds the reader’s attention until the very last page. Recently published to great acclaim …
Architecture

The Business of Architecture

Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm

Kathy Denise Dixon, Timothy A. Kephart, and Karl L. Moody

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by successful …
Architecture

Mosaic

War Monument Mystery

Louis Nelson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists, and the first …
Genocide Studies

The Problems of Genocide

Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the …
History

Winston Churchill

A Life in the News

Richard Toye

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was …
Islamic Studies

The Colour of God

Ayesha S. Chaudhry

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In today’s episode, we speak with Ayesha Chaudhry about her new book, The Colour of God (Oneworld Publications, 2021). The book describes Chaudhry’s personal, spiritual, and professional journey as she navigates her …
Book of the Day/ History

The Monopolists

Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

Mary Pilon

Hosted by Lee Pierce
The inside story of the world's most famous board game-a buried piece of American history with an epic scandal that continues today. The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game (Bloomsbury, 2015) reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession …
National Security

War Time

Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power

Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, and Amelie Theussen

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
The "decline of the West" is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolonged and unsuccessful wars--most …
Jewish Studies

Reason to Believe

The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Harry Freedman

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Louis Jacobs was Britain's most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and easy-going, he was widely expected to become Britain's next Chief Rabbi. Then …
Jewish Studies

Founding God’s Nation

Reading Exodus

Leon R. Kass

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
Everything, in the end, comes down to Exodus. Everything that we are as a civilization goes back to Exodus. Every person, religious or not, who wants to consider him or …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

On the Fringe

Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

Michael D. Gordin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on …
Science

Full Spectrum

How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

Adam Rogers

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights …
Communications

Misogynoir Transformed

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Moya Bailey

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny. When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas …
Medicine

Standpipe

Delivering Water in Flint

David Hardin

Hosted by Claire Clark
A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against …
Architecture

Analysing Architecture

The Universal Language of Place-Making

Simon Unwin

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those …
Jewish Studies

The Erez Concise Guide Series

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Erez Series is comprised of the Concise Guides to the full gamut of Jewish thought, from the Torah to modern halakha (Jewish law) and Mahshava (Jewish philosophy). The late …
Nordic Asia Podcast

How China Loses

A Discussion with Luke Patey

Luke Patey

Hosted by Andreas Forsby
Western media accounts often suggest that China is rising inexorably as a global economic and political powerhouse. A new book by Luke Patey offers a more nuanced picture, focusing on …
Academic Life

Pandemic Perspectives: Loneliness in Graduate School

A Discussion with Sarah Paschal Gerenday

Sarah Paschal Gerenday

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

After Callimachus

Poems

Stephanie Burt

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Andrzej Nedoma

CEO, Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Speaker

Hosted by Richard Lucas
Andrzej Nedoma talks about how he saw his father start a translation business when he was a boy and observed the stresses, pressures and successes of having a solo-entrepreneur in …
Book of the Day/ Law

Privilege and Punishment

How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court

Matthew Clair

Hosted by Samuel Newton
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton UP, 2020) by Matthew Clair is a powerful ethnographic study of the experiences and perspectives of criminal defendants. While many studies have demonstrated the existence of race and class disparities in the criminal justice system, Clair conducted a rare and compelling study that puts heart and emotion into these disparities. As he argues and shows, not only should we care …
Animal Studies

The Rights of Nature

A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

David R. Boyd

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Utopia's Discontents

Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s

Faith Hillis

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years …
Scholarly Communication

Second Language Writing

Ken Hyland

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Ken Hyland, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. We talked about his book Second Language Writing (Cambridge UP, 2019), the …
Literature

The Lines Between Us

Rebecca D'Harlingue

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Rebecca D’Harlingue about her novel The Lines Between Us (She Writes Press, 2020). A widow in 17th century Spain discovers that her beloved niece, Juliana, has suddenly disappeared. Juliana …
Psychology

Permission to Feel

Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Marc Brackett

Hosted by Debbie Sorensen
Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist, he …
National Security

On Resilience

Genealogy, Logics, and World Politics

Philippe Bourbeau

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
What does it mean to be resilient in a societal or in an international context? Where does resilience come from? From which discipline was it 'imported' into international relations? If …
Economics

The Promise of Bitcoin

The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You

Bobby C. Lee

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Bobby Lee about his book The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You (McGraw-Hill, 2021). Bobby Lee is a very interesting …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Giulia Zampini on Researching Drug Taking

A Discussion about the "Peoples and Dancefloors Project"

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Today I talked to Giulia Zampini about her research into drug taking, and particularly about the "People and Dancefloors" project. Based on a participatory action research methodology, People and Dancefloors involves knowledge …
Critical Theory

The Social Media Age

Zoetanya Sujon

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How has social media shaped contemporary society? In The Social Media Age (Sage, 2021),  Zoetanya Sujon, a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Communications and Media at London College of …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 1)

Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode will be the first of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. Since 1987 …

N+1: "Like Paris Review, but Not Dead"

A Discussion with Mark Krotov

Mark Krotov

Hosted by Agata Popeda
In this episode, we are talking to Mark Krotov, the publisher and co-editor of n + 1, a magazine of politics, essays and fiction described once: “like The Paris Review …