New Books Network

Southeast Asian Studies September 15, 2021

Language Ungoverned

Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949

Tom G. Hoogervorst

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria

Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – writings produced by the Chinese community in the Malay language – in …

Cover Story September 14, 2021

Covering Donald Trump

A Conversation with Allen Salkin

Allen Salkin

Hosted by Agata Popeda

What's it like to cover Donald Trump? In this episode, veteran American journalist Allen Salkin explains. For over three decades, Salkin has written about many things for many high-profile publications, including …

Literary Studies September 13, 2021

The Small Literary Press

An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)

Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli

Hosted by Yakir Englander

Home Press is a tiny local publishing house and press in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Uri Yoeli and Nana Ariel, a couple, established it in their apartment in 2019. The Home …

Journalism September 10, 2021

All the News That’s Fit to Click

How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists

Caitlin Petre

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle

Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are …

Nordic Asia Podcast September 10, 2021

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

A Conversation with Raquel Carvalho

Raquel Carvalho

Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel Carvalho, Asia Correspondent …

Popular Culture September 6, 2021

The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race

Why Are We All Gagging?

Cameron Crookston

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

In The Cultural Impact of RuPaul's Drag Race: Why are we all Gagging? (Intellect, 2021) Cameron Crookston has compiled chapters from scholars in theatre and performance studies, English literature, cultural anthropology …

Literary Studies September 3, 2021

Beyond Conversation

Collaboration and the Production of Writing

William Duffy

Hosted by Sarah Kearns

In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the growing interest in collaboration within digital and …

Education September 3, 2021

No Longer Newsworthy

How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

Christopher R. Martin

Hosted by Thomas Discenna

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed upscale …

Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight September 2, 2021

The Power of Clarity

Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment

Ann Latham

Hosted by Dan Hill

Today I talked to Ann Latham about her new book The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment (Bloomsbury, 2021). On the factory floor, the …

Critical Theory August 26, 2021

Algorithmic Desire

Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media

Matthew Flisfeder

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman

One of the most fundamental aspects of modern life is that much of it is lived on and through social media. We create profiles, post pictures, update stories, and even …

General History August 24, 2021

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Christopher M. Elias

Hosted by Dexter Fergie

If information is power, then so too is gossip. In Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (U Chicago Press, 2021), historian Christopher …

Intellectual History August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Hosted by Daniel Peris

Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A History …

Science August 17, 2021

How to Talk to a Science Denier

Lee McIntyre

Hosted by Galina Limorenko

Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are …

Science August 17, 2021

The Digital Environment

How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein

Hosted by Galina Limorenko

Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward …

Biography August 13, 2021

The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

Samantha Barbas

Hosted by Mark Klobas

Over the course of a long and successful legal career, Morris Ernst established himself as one of Americas foremost civil libertarians. Yet his advocacy of free speech – an advocacy …

Irish Studies August 11, 2021

LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland

Páraic Kerrigan

Hosted by Averill Earls

“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neighbor in RTE’s Upwardly Mobile. Though the first queer characters in …

Ideas Roadshow Podcast August 9, 2021

Cryptoreality

Artur Ekert

Hosted by Howard Burton

Cryptoreality is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and Director of …

Australian and New Zealand Studies August 6, 2021

The Writer's Diet

Helen Sword

Hosted by Bede Haines

Helen Sword, writing champion, brings us into the word gym. Or maybe kitchen. Either way, The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose (U Chicago Press, 2016) is a short, sharp introduction …

Scholarly Communication August 5, 2021

The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge

Peter B. Kaufman

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Peter Kaufman, Program Manager in Strategic Initiatives and Resource Development at MIT Open Learning and author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge …

Political Science August 5, 2021

The Politics of Herding Cats

When Congressional Leaders Fail

John Lovett

Hosted by Lilly Goren

In considering how legislation moves forward in the American political system, we often think about elected representatives sitting in committee hearings or Senators speaking from the floor of the Senate …