48 Transform, Not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation (PW, EF)
The eternal challenge (obsession) of translation: “how not to get lost in translation”. However, the award-winning translator and literary scholar at Emory University Lisa Dillman suggests that we may...
15 Jan 202127min
47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)
What’s a picture worth? How about the picture that allows scientists to grasp what’s actually going on in a cell–or on the spiky outside of an invading virus? Gael McGill, Director of Molecular Visual...
17 Dec 202033min
46 Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
What do children love most about books? Leaving their mark on inviting white spaces? Or that enchanting feeling when a book marks them as its own, taking them off to where the wild things are? To unde...
3 Dec 202029min
45 Global Policing 3 Laurence Ralph: Reckoning with Police Violence
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John speak with anthropologist Laurence Ralph about his 2020 book The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence. The book relate...
29 Okt 202038min
44 Adaner Usmani: Racism as idea, Racism as power relation (EF, JP)
racism, mass incarceration, Southern plantation economy, and W.E.B. Du Bois
1 Okt 202030min
43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
“My subject was not my inward self, but…the worlds within me.” Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar, has written a marvelous new book about that grumpiest of Nobel l...
6 Aug 202037min
42 Recall This Buck 2: Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)
Our Recall This Buck series began by speaking with Christine Desan of Harvard Law School about how key ideas—and the actual currency, physical coins and bills— underlying the modern monetary system ge...
31 Juli 202046min
41 RTB Books in Dark Times 13: Lorraine Daston, Historian of Science (JP)
In this final episode of Books in Dark Times, John chews the bibliographic fat with Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her list of publications outstrips...
24 Juli 202029min
