All Episodes
Recall This Book — 69 episodes
64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth
63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)
62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)
61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)
60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)
59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)
58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)
57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley'” (JP)
56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
54 Crossover Month #3: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Elizabeth McMahon, JP)
53 Crossover Month #2: Novel Dialogue (Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Robbins, JP)
52 Crossover Month #1: “High Theory” and the Pastoral (Kim, Saronik, JP)
51 Recall This Buck 3: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Ideology (Adaner, JP)
50 Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy; or, Why Words Matter
49 The Capitol Insurrection and Asymmetrical Policing: David Cunningham (EF, JP)
48 Transform, Not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation (PW, EF)
46 Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
45 Global Policing 3 Laurence Ralph: Reckoning with Police Violence
44 Adaner Usmani: Racism as idea, Racism as power relation (EF, JP)
43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
41 RTB Books in Dark Times 13: Lorraine Daston, Historian of Science (JP)
40 Global Policing 1: Hayal Akarsu on Turkish Community Policing (EF, JP)
39 RTB Books in Dark Times 12: Carlo Rotella (JP)
38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)
37 RTB Books In Dark Times 11: Elizabeth Bradfield (JP)
36 Policing and White Power: (EF, JP) Global Policing Series
35 RTB Books In Dark Times 10: Martin Puchner
34 The Caribbean and Vectors of Warfare: Vincent Brown (EF, JP)
33 RTB Books in Dark Times 9: Ben Fountain (JP)
32 RTB Books in Dark Times 8: Paul Saint-Amour (JP 5/20)
31 RTB Books in Dark Times 7: Vanessa Smith (JP)
29 RTB Books in Dark Times 6: Kim Stanley Robinson (JP)
28 RTB Books in Dark Times 5: Seeta Chaganti (JP)
27 RTB Books in Dark Times 4: David and John Plotz
26 RTB Books in Dark Times 3: Plotz/Ferry
25 RTB Books in Dark Times 2: Stephen McCauley (JP)
24 RTB Books in Dark Times 1: Alex Star (JP)
23 Recall This Buck 1: Chris Desan on Making Money (EF, JP)
9* Women in Political Power, with Manduhai Buyandelger (Rebroadcast, in honor of Elizabeth Warren)
22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)
21 Silvia Bottinelli: Food, Art, Food Art!
20 The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
19 Scientists, collaboration, and groupthink with Albion Lawrence (EF, JP)
18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)
17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)
16 de/industrialization with Christine Walley (EF and JP)
15x Afterthoughts on Zadie Smith (John and Elizabeth)
15 In Focus: Zadie Smith (JP)
14x Afterthoughts about the Cixin Liu interview (Pu Wang and John)
14 In Focus: Cixin Liu (in English, with Pu Wang, JP)
14c 刘慈欣访谈中文版 Cixin Liu with Pu Wang (in Chinese)
13 Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
12 RTB Presents “The Electro–Library” (with Jared Green)
11 Xenophobia and Ethno-Nationalism, 1973 to today (Quinn Slobodian)
10 Life, Writing, and Life Writing with Helena DeBres
9 Women in Political Power; with Manduhai Buyandelger
8 Distraction, a Conversation (Marina Van Zuylen and John Plotz at Harvard’s Mahindra Center)
7 In Focus: Samuel Delany in conversation with John Plotz (Nevèrÿon, Triton, Gertrude Stein and more….)
6 Writing Then and Now: Martin Puchner (The Written World)
5 The Comic Novel with Stephen McCauley
4 In Focus: An Interview with Madeline Miller about Circe (JP, GT)
3 Old and New Media with Lisa Gitelman
2 Addiction with Gina Turrigiano
1 Minimalism with Tory Fair