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Food May 7, 2021

Why We Cook

Women on Food, Identity, and Connection

Lindsay Gardner

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection (Workman, 2021) includes essays, recipes, interviews and profiles of more than 100 women in the world of food; from restaurateurs and …

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The Common Magazine May 7, 2021

You Like to Have Some Cup of Tea?’ and Other Questions About Complicity and Place

Deborah Lindsay Williams

Hosted by Emily Everett
Deborah Lindsay Williams speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her “‘You Like to Have Some Cup of Tea?’ and Other Questions About Complicity and Place,” which appears in Issue …
Scholarly Communication May 7, 2021

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, audio books, distribution chains …
American West May 7, 2021

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The only constant in Western history is change. Susan Lee Johnson, Harry Reid Endowed Chair in the History of the Intermountain West at UNLV, knows this better than most. Author of …
Middle Eastern Studies May 7, 2021

Turkey, Egypt, and Syria

A Travelogue

Shibli Numani

Hosted by Asad Dandia
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Syracuse UP, 2019) vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu'mani (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in …
Architecture May 7, 2021

Parks and Recreation System Planning

A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities

David Barth

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green …
SSEAC Stories May 6, 2021

Of Rice and Men

How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam

Justin Beardsley

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tuberculosis. However, they are often overlooked, and receive …
Asian Review of Books May 6, 2021

Finding the Raga

An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Dismissal, in fact, is the default response to khayal (the preeminent genre of North Indian classical music), well before we get to know what khayal is, and vaguely term its …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 6, 2021

Men to Avoid in Art and Life

Nicole Tersigni

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Nicole Tersigni about her book Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020). Nicole Tersigni is a comedic writer experienced in improve comedy and women’s …
Critical Theory May 6, 2021

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

Michael L. Siciliano

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Queen's University …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy

Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon

Clemena Antonova

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Often referred to as “the Russian Leonardo”, religious philosopher and Orthodox parish priest Pavel Florensky was a pivotal figure in the Russian religious renaissance at the turn of the 20th …
Literary Studies May 5, 2021

Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul

Mykola (Nik) Bazhan's Early Experimental Poetry

Mykola Bazhan

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry (Academic Studies Press, 2020) presents a collection of early works by Mykola Bazhan, one of the most enigmatic …
Jewish Studies May 5, 2021

Songs in Dark Times

Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine

Amelia M. Glaser

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth--Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans--in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times …
Middle Eastern Studies May 5, 2021

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life

The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World

Jörg Matthias Determann

Hosted by Asad Dandia
The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the …
Landscape Architecture May 4, 2021

Teaching Landscape

The Studio Experience

Karsten Jørgensen et al.

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience (Routledge, 2019) gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios. This is the companion volume …
Historical Fiction May 4, 2021

Three Locks

A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Bonnie Macbird

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Sherlock Holmes is one of the rare literary characters who has achieved a kind of cultural immortality. As Bonnie MacBird notes in this interview, display an image of a deerstalker hat …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 4, 2021

Men Out of Focus

The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties

Marko Dumancic

Hosted by Jill Massino
Marko Dumancic's book Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties (University of Toronto Press, 2021) charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular …
Music May 4, 2021

Black Diamond Queens

African American Women and Rock and Roll

Maureen Mahon

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Maureen Mahon’s book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Duke University Press, 2020), focuses on the contributions to rock and roll by African American women from …
History May 4, 2021

American Writers and World War I

David A. Rennie

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. He examines …
Cover Story May 4, 2021

The Work of Editing a Magazine

A Discussion with Chris Lehmann

Chris Lehmann

Hosted by Agata Popeda
In this episode, we are talking to writer and editor Chris Lehmann, an editor of The Baffler, a former managing editor of The New Republic and a former editor of …