All Episodes

Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?

Defeat at the Dnepr: The XLVIII Panzerkorps Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943 with Simon Waring (Casemate, 2026)

Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use

Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)

The Haunted Playground with R. J. Palacio (Random House, 2026)

The Rhyl Poster with Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape, 2026)

Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions: The Roots of Modern Korean with Daniel Pieper (U Toronto Press, 2026)

Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Parties on the Ground: A Study of Nominations for the House of Representatives with Kathleen Bawn and Knox Brown (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators with Jeremiah McCall (Routledge, 2026)

Sutra Americana with Monona Wali (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)

Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block with Talitha LeFlouria (Beacon Press, 2022)

Disability: A History of Resistance with David Turner (Random House, 2026)

The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel - Bereshit Volume 1: The Beginning with Jordan B Gorfinkel (Koren Publishers, 2026)

First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism with Teresa M. Bejan (Harvard UP, 2026)

The Age of Fury with John Stephens (Random House, 2026)

Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World with Jennifer de Mooy (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel with Huda Fahmy (Dial Books, 2026)

From Toastmasters & Hustle to 5M PLN Publishing & The Next Pivot: Marcin Osman's Entrepreneurial Journey

The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell

Christmas Carols: An English Enchantment with John Potter (Yale UP, 2026)

Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803 with Frances Kolb Turnbell (LSU Press, 2024)

Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia with Ali Altaf Mian (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)

In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)

Action Bodies: VFX, Identity, and Embodiment in Blockbuster Cinema with Drew Ayers (U Texas Press, 2026)

Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work with Annie McClanahan (Princeton UP, 2026)

Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)

Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)

Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent with John William Nelson (UNC Press, 2023)

American Flash Fiction: Brilliant Brevities & Miniature Masterpieces

An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America with Keri Leigh Merritt (St. Martin's Press, 2026)

Sublime Sociality: An (Auto)Ethnographic Theory of Chinese Christianity with Gareth Breen (LSE Press, 2026)

Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women with Eleanor Johnson (Princeton UP, 2026)

Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)

Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture with Matthew Warner Osborn (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution with Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Doubleday, 2026)

Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Kaale Belongings and Evangelical Becomings: An Ethnography of Finnish Roma with Raluca Bianca Roman (Brill Schöningh, 2025)

Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712 with Nat Cutter (Oxford UP, 2026)

Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)

Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardner Tyler with Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy (UP of Kansas, 2026)

Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez

Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology As First Philosophy with Roger T. Ames (SUNY Press, 2025)

Tyrell Haberkorn In Conversation with Duncan McCargo

The Warm Hug: Substance Use and How to Fix the Failure of Treatment and Recovery in America with Keith Keller (Infinite Recovery, 2026)

How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play with Aaron Trammell (Duke UP, 2026)

Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City with Michael Dillon (Yale UP, 2026)

Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo with Timothy Thurston (U Washington Press, 2025)

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany with Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes (Cornell UP, 2026)

Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream with Dixie Dillon Lane (Eerdmans, 2026)

An Alaṅkāra Reader: Classical Indian Poetics with Yigal Bronner (Columbia UP, 2026)

Radioland with Matt Cahill (Buckrider Books, 2022)

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art with Katrin Kogman-Appel (Bodleian Library, 2023)

The Instrument Must Not Matter with Christine Fischer Guy (Buckrider Books, 2026)

The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution with Jesse Wegman (Celadon Books, 2026)

Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival with Sarah Brothers (U California Press, 2026)

Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Fictions of Freedom: Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India with Pankhuri Agarwal (Cambridge UP, 2026)

The Brass Band Story with Trevor Herbert (Yale UP, 2026)

Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)

Walking with Beth: Conversations with My 100-Year-Old Friend with Merilyn Simonds (Random House Canada, 2025)

God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology with N Gray Sutanto (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction with Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

Chicana Spiritual Activism: Making Change, Making Soul with Brenda L. Sendejo (U Arizona Press, 2026)

American Bread: A History with Andrew Coe (U California Press, 2026)

Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)

Bureau of Useless Splendour with Chris Banks (ECW Press, 2026)

Making Sense of China's Economy with Tao Wang and Michael Leger (Routledge, 2023)

A Bunch of Fives with William Kely McClung (Falling Up Publishing, 2026)

How to Date A Fanatic with Aruni Kashyap (HarperVia, 2026)

The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories with Judith Dancoff (Finishing Line Press, 2024)

Realism After the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel with Rafael Walker (U Chicago Press, 2025)

"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hernández and Baruch Vergara

The Democracy Exchange: Asia Asks, Latin America Responds

Samantha: The Next Chapter with Fiona Davis (American Girl Publishing, 2026)

Butter Road with Jaclyn Gilbert (Acre Books, 2026)

Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's March 1917 with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney (U Notre Dame Press, 2017)

A Real Animal with Emeline Atwood (Catapult, 2026)

Seniorland: Aging in a Retirement Metropolis with Galit Nimrod (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Towards a Poetics of Illness Experience with Laurence J. Kirmayer (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (Brandeis UP, 2026)

The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World with Barry R Davis (JHU Press, 2026)

Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)

The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa with Samuel D. Anderson (Cornell UP, 2026)

Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences with Bryan Batista-Thomas (Routledge, 2026)

Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America with Marie Gottschalk (Princeton UP, 2026)

God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America with Jacob Ware (Columbia UP, 2024)

Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation with Dan Degerman (Routledge, 2026)

Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)

Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters with Alpesh Maisuria and Grant Banfield (Routledge, 2022)

Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Illinois Press, 2026)

Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform with Charles West (Oxford UP, 2025)

An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa with Elisa Prosperetti (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parash with David Bashevkin (Maggid, 2026)

Mistranslation with Madeleine Moss (U Iowa Press, 2026)