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The University of Chicago Press Podcast
Interviews with authors of University of Chicago Press books.
August 8, 2026
Fate in My Hands
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Yana Skorobogatov about her book, Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union (University of Chicago…
July 30, 2026
The Mahabharata, Volume 8
The Mahabharata, Volume 8 (U Chicago Press, 2026) is a translation of the twelfth book of The Mahābhārata, an epic tale of history and kingship, reinf…
July 19, 2026
Against Money
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card at the grocery store, in looming student-loan debts, in the prices of things w…
July 18, 2026
Sand, Snow, and Stardust
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s thr…
July 15, 2026
This Is Rhythm
Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer i…
July 9, 2026
The Ryukyu Islands
Most people only know one of the Ryukyu Islands: the island of Okinawa, home to sandy beaches and one of the U.S.’s most important bases in Asia. Ther…
July 4, 2026
The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris
With The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism (University of Chicago Press, 2026), Rachel…
July 3, 2026
The Problem with Personalization
A respected voice on technology shows how seemingly simple ads help dismantle democracy and public discourse. Whether you’re intentionally shopping o…
June 29, 2026
A Perturbed System
Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we’ve built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us c…
June 23, 2026
Disabled Empire
Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain (U Chicago Press, 2026) examines how imperial precedents and racial ideologies shaped th…
May 2, 2026
Atlas's Bones
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer.…
April 21, 2026
Marriage Material
It is no secret that marriage rates in the United States are at an all-time low. Despite this significant decline, the institution of marriage endures…
April 15, 2026
The Politics of Social Change
Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years later…
April 12, 2026
The Killing Age
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the M…
April 6, 2026
Governing the Excluded
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely o…
March 30, 2026
The Ryukyu Islands
The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands' history, …
March 28, 2026
Willing Warriors
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 22, 2026
Company Towns
In Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust (University of Chicago Press, 2026), Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell Elder …
March 19, 2026
The Unruly Facts of Race
What happens when theories of racial hierarchies interact with reality? How are they contested, refuted and changed in light of that encounter? What r…