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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 …

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Anthropology May 5, 2021

Wade Davis Discusses His Life and Work

Wade Davis

Hosted by Keith Krueger
"… I am an axe; And my son a handle, soon; To be shaping again, model; And tool, craft of culture; How we go on." - Gary Snyder, Axe Handles (1983) "… wisdom …
Critical Theory May 5, 2021

Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet

Domenico Losurdo

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stands among the canon’s most-cited figures, with aphorisms dotting texts on a variety of topics, and his name evokes strong responses from almost …
History May 4, 2021

Rebel Cinderella

From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Adam Hochschild

Hosted by Robert Snyder
In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work April 27, 2021

Las Biuty Queens

Stories

Iván Monalisa Ojeda

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City …
Military History April 27, 2021

To Rule the Skies

General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War

Brent D. Ziarnick

Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
A sadist. A madman. A sociopath seduced by the terrible allure of nuclear weapons. These are but a few of the pejoratives commonly used to describe United States Air Force …
Gender and Sexuality April 27, 2021

Black Boy Out of Time

A Memoir

Hari Ziyad

Hosted by Christina Gessler
One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes …
African American Studies April 26, 2021

Fugitive Pedagogy

Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Jarvis R. Givens

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, I am interviewing Dr. Jarvis R …
Performing Arts April 22, 2021

Merce Cunningham

After the Arbitrary

Carrie Noland

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Carrie Noland's Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary (University of Chicago Press, 2020) goes past conventional understandings of Cunningham that insist that randomness was his central goal as a choreographer, instead …
Biography April 20, 2021

The Girl Who Dared to Defy

Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

Jane Little Botkin

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 1916, hundreds of local female household workers attempted to establish a union in Denver. The organizer behind the effort was Jane Street, a remarkable 29-year-old woman who, as Jane …
Popular Culture April 20, 2021

Vinyl Ventures

My Fifty Years at Rounder Records

Bill Nowlin

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records (Equinox, 2021), founder Bill Nowlin combines memoir with a history of the founding and evolution of Rounder as he talks about his …
Literature April 16, 2021

An Indian Among Los Indígenas

Ursula Pike

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
The western travel narrative genre has a history long tied to voyeurism and conquest. A way to see the world—and its many unique people and places—through the eyes of mostly …
Popular Culture April 9, 2021

My Private Lennon

Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed

Sibbie O'Sullivan

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In My Private Lennon: Explorations From a Fan Who Never Screamed (Mad Creek Press, 2020), Sibbie O'Sullivan offers a new point of view from which to consider the Beatles’ impact on society and on …
Jewish Studies April 9, 2021

Don Issac Abravanel

An Intellectual Biography

Cedric Cohen-Skalli

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings; a preacher and exegete …
Philosophy April 9, 2021

Marcus Aurelius

John Sellars

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is one of the most popular philosophical works by sales to the public, while in academic philosophy he is considered somewhat of a philosophical lightweight. In Marcus …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 7, 2021

Operation White Rabbit

LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King

Dennis McDougal

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King (Simon and Schuster, 2020) traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the …
Anthropology April 6, 2021

Anthropology and Radical Humanism

Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race

Jack Glazier

Hosted by Alex Golub
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas,  and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago. Yet little is known about Radin's life. A leftist who was …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 31, 2021

Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist

A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs

Mary Ann Cherry

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
How did the gay movement, which began as a sedate group of intellectuals, become what is arguably the most dynamic civil rights crusade in America? How did a deviant and …
Christian Studies March 30, 2021

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards

Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford UP, 2021) offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as …
Latino Studies March 30, 2021

Unforgetting

A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

Roberto Lovato

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he …