56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column ca...
3 Juni 202113min
55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
Their tongues are ashes when they’d speak to us. David Ferry, “Resemblance” The underworld, that repository of the Shades of the Dead, gets a lot of traffic from time to time, especially from heroes (...
27 Maj 202143min
54 Crossover Month #3: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Elizabeth McMahon, JP)
Crossover Month continues with a scintillating Australian fiction episode from Novel Dialogue, a new podcast hosted by the awesome Aarthi Vadde of Duke, and RTB’s own JP. If you like what you hear, pl...
22 Apr 202148min
53 Crossover Month #2: Novel Dialogue (Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Robbins, JP)
Crossover Month continues with something completely different, and only a little bit incestuous. Novel Dialogue is a new podcast hosted by the awesome Aarthi Vadde of Duke, and RTB’s own JP. John and ...
8 Apr 202138min
52 Crossover Month #1: “High Theory” and the Pastoral (Kim, Saronik, JP)
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu share an office at the English department of NYU–and now they also share High Theory a podcast where you can “get high on the substance of theory.” Their lovable podcast alw...
25 Mars 202144min
51 Recall This Buck 3: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Ideology (Adaner, JP)
Is Thomas Piketty the world’s most famous economic historian ? A superstar enemy of plutocratic capitalism who wrote a pathbreaking bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century? Or simply a debonair and ge...
19 Feb 202147min
50 Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy; or, Why Words Matter
Continuing our conversation on the events at the Capitol and the end of the Trump era, John and Elizabeth spoke with Brandeis historian Greg Childs. He is an expert in Latin American political movemen...
5 Feb 202130min
49 The Capitol Insurrection and Asymmetrical Policing: David Cunningham (EF, JP)
We first heard from the sociologist of American racism David Cunningham in Episode 36 Policing and White Power. Less than a week after the horrors of January 6th, he came back for an extended conversa...
21 Jan 202128min
