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Popular Culture
Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.
August 3, 2026
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The War of the Worlds
In light of the dismal Disclosure Day (2026), we return to two films that show Spielberg tackling alien visitation (or invasion) stories while at the …
July 30, 2026
The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repre…
July 30, 2026
Koreatown, NYC
How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclave In the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movie…
July 30, 2026
Rock ‘N’ Roll
Rock 'n' roll appeared in the 1950s as the high-energy, electrically amplified music of young dancers and listeners, first in the United States and th…
July 22, 2026
Eminent Jews
What made a generation of Jewish artists and intellectuals transform American culture? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with acclaimed cultu…
July 22, 2026
The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games
Despite decades of inflammatory rhetoric, the real risk of video games lies not in their violent imagery but in the ethical and political sensibilitie…
July 21, 2026
Thresholds of Digital Gameplay
Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, contr…
July 20, 2026
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is the most significant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were sold—more than any other computer fro…
July 15, 2026
Suicide in Popular Media and Culture
NB: This episode contains a discussion of suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners. If you are thinking about hurting yourself, help is al…
July 15, 2026
Glasses
Glasses are among the oldest and most commonplace prosthetics we have invented. But what does it mean to wear glasses? There is more to the answer tha…
July 9, 2026
Blow by Blow
With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon known and loved by millions. Yet somehow, he maintained the ineffable low p…
July 8, 2026
Metamodern Mysticism
In this episode, host Pierce Salguero sits down with Linda C. Ceriello, a scholar of mysticism and popular culture from Kennesaw State University in G…
July 7, 2026
Planet Digital
In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed, reshaping cul…
July 7, 2026
Minimalist Music
Minimalist Music (Bloomsbury, 2026) looks critically into the music's past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minim…
July 5, 2026
Supercanucks
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Matthew D. Del Papa, one of the editors of SuperCanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Supe…
July 3, 2026
Smell
The sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive—the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today we live in an a…
July 1, 2026
Pink Tsunami
In his latest book, Pink Tsunami: The Hello Kitty Kawaii Wave that has Swept the World (Headpress 2026), Alan Brender delves into Hello Kitty the mark…
June 30, 2026
One Day in September
On a crisp September afternoon in 1917, as the country waged war and the national pastime faced questions about its purpose, baseball paused to recons…
June 29, 2026
Kindness & Salt
When Brooklyn restaurateurs Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo opened Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens in 2008, they created more than a restaurant—the…
June 28, 2026
Foul or Fair?
There's more to sports than what occurs during games. Check your social media, listen to sports talk radio, or watch ESPN--there are daily stories of …