Arts & Letters

Architecture

Architecture

episodes

Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.

Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

March 13, 2026

A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre

Jessica Clarke
Art

Art

episodes

Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP 2025)

March 24, 2026

In the Sun King's Cosmos

Claire Goldstein
Hosted by Gina Stamm
Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas, "Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space" (Routledge, 2025)

March 24, 2026

Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas
Hosted by Iva Glisic
Children's Literature

Children's Literature

episodes

Interviews with authors of children's literature about their new books

Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)

March 7, 2026

Sesame Street Around the World

Tamara Kay and Andrew W Mellon Endowed Chair in Sociology Tamara Kay
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Kristine A. Lombardi, "Crouton: One Cat's Adoption Tale" (Random House, 2026)

February 18, 2026

Crouton

Kristine A. Lombardi
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and Graphic Novels

episodes
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

December 25, 2025

Drawn to Nature

Colin Williamson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

episodes

Interviews with digital humanists and scholars of digital humanities about their new work.

Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)

January 12, 2026

Scholarly Podcasting

Ian M. Cook
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Suzette van Haaren, "The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Material Approaches to Digital Codicology" (Brill, 2025)

December 22, 2025

The Digital Medieval Manuscript

Suzette van Haaren
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Fantasy

Fantasy

episodes

Interviews with fantasy writers about their new books.

Nicole Glover, "The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2026)

March 7, 2026

The Starseekers

Nicole Glover
Mia Tsai, "The Memory Hunters" (Erewhon Books, 2025)

January 23, 2026

The Memory Hunters

Mia Tsai
Hosted by A. E. Lanier
Film

Film

episodes

Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.

Folklore

Folklore

episodes

Interviews with folklorists and scholars of folklore about their new books.

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

February 11, 2026

Thirty-Two Words for Field

Manchán Magan
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

January 14, 2026

Deep Cosmopolitanism

Leah Lowthorp
Hosted by Yadong Li
Food

Food

episodes

Interview with authors and scholars about books on food and the culinary arts.

Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

March 16, 2026

Snack

Eurie Dahn
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)

March 7, 2026

People of the Wheat

Rebecca Sharpless
Hosted by Scott Catey
Game Studies

Game Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of games and gaming about their new books. For more information about the Game Studies special series, please contact Rudolf Thomas Inderst at rudolf.inderst@googlemail.com.

Carlin Wing, "Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play" (MIT Press, 2026)

March 11, 2026

Bounce

Carlin Wing
Kaitlin Tremblay, "Life is Strange" (Boss Fight Books, 2026)

March 9, 2026

Life is Strange

Kaitlin Tremblay
Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction

episodes

Interviews with writers of historical fiction about their new books.

Janice Hadlow, "Rules of the Heart" (Henry Holt and Company, 2026)

March 22, 2026

Rules of the Heart

Janice Hadlow
Hosted by Hollay Ghadery
Meg Merriet Wahlberg, "Chivalry in the Shadows" (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024)

March 19, 2026

Chivalry in the Shadows

Meg Merriet Wahlberg
Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Library Science

Library Science

episodes

Interviews with authors about new books in library science.

Literary Studies

Literary Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP 2025)

March 24, 2026

In the Sun King's Cosmos

Claire Goldstein
Hosted by Gina Stamm
Literature

Literature

episodes

Interviews with writer of creative fiction and non-fiction about their new books.

Daniel Poppick, "The Copywriter" (Scribner, 2026)

March 24, 2026

The Copywriter

Daniel Poppick
Hosted by Chris Holmes
Esther Goldenberg, "Song of the Bluebird" (Row House, 2026)

March 24, 2026

Song of the Bluebird

Esther Goldenberg
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Museum Studies

Museum Studies

episodes

Interviews with authors and scholars about new books in museum studies.

Georgios Boudalis, "On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean" (Legacy Press, 2022)

March 15, 2026

On the Edge

Georgios Boudalis
Hosted by Lauren Fonto
Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)

February 27, 2026

Invisible Hands

Margaret S. Graves
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Music

Music

episodes

Interviews with musicians and scholars of music about their new books.

Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome" (Zone Books, 2026)

March 22, 2026

Castrato Phantoms

Martha Feldman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Mike Huguenor, "Elvis Is Dead, I'm Still Alive: The Story of Asian Man Records" (Clash, 2026)

March 21, 2026

Elvis Is Dead, I'm Still Alive

Mike Huguenor
Hosted by Gregory Soden
Performing Arts

Performing Arts

episodes

Interviews with performing artists and scholars of the performing arts about their new books.

Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley

March 16, 2026

Jewface

Hosted by YIVO Institute
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

March 13, 2026

A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre

Jessica Clarke
Photography

Photography

episodes

Interviews with photographers and scholars of photography about their new books.

P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)

March 17, 2026

Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities

P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds.
Hosted by Khadeeja Amenda
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

March 10, 2026

Forging a Mexican People

Pablo Zavala
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Poetry

Poetry

episodes

Interviews with poets and scholars of poetry about their new books.

Popular Culture

Popular Culture

episodes

Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.

Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

March 25, 2026

Work Won't Love You Back

Sarah Jaffe
Hosted by Thomas Discenna
Alan McDougall, "Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

March 24, 2026

Dreams and Songs to Sing

Alan McDougall
Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Science Fiction

Science Fiction

episodes

Interviews with writers of science fiction and scholars of science fiction about their new books.