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Interviews with authors of University of California Press books.
October 13, 2026
American Bread
There is no humbler food than bread, none easier to take for granted. So ancient that it shows up in prehistoric sites, bread is still full of surpris…
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Power Surge
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September 24, 2026
Sugar Coated
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The practice of history in premodern Java was profoundly influenced by precarious conditions of textual production and preservation: fragile manuscrip…
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Hate Speech
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57 The Next Issue
In this episode, Melissa Fuster and Rosi Song of Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective introduce the journal’s latest issue, Fall 2026 (volume 26, issue…
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One year after the publication of Gastronomica’s special feature on food and philosophy, Robert T. Valgenti of the Editorial Collective revisits the q…
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Feeling Like Lovers
Matthew Thomas Miller's new book Feeling like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism (U California Press, 2026), and is available as an open access book (s…
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How Economics Discovered Women
In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The resu…
August 21, 2026
Mulholland Drive at 25
In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor of Film Quarterly discusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive on its 25th ann…
August 19, 2026
Making Care Work
A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is mu…
August 19, 2026
Ganja Matters
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August 17, 2026
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August 16, 2026
Asianism and the Fall of Empire
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press, …