Episodes
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Michael Katz - Dostoevsky
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Michael Katz is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is a translator of several works of Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Dave Rearick - Sailing Around the World
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Dave Rearick circumnavigated the globe, and is the author of Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone.
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Michael Joyce - Electronic Literature
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Michael Joyce is a novelist, poet, critic and the author of works of electronic literature, including afternoon, a story.
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Milan Ćirković - Aliens and Fermi’s Paradox
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Milan Ćirković is a professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, and the author of The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox.
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Robert Kelly - Hunter-Gatherers to Today
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Robert L. Kelly is an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, and the author of several books including The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future.
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Andrew Walder - The Cultural Revolution
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Andrew Walder is a political sociologist at Stanford, and the author of several books on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. His latest book is Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery.
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Monday Jul 10, 2023
Matt Simon - Plastic Poison
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Matt Simon is a writer at Wired Magazine, and the author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Warren Motte - Experimental Literature
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Warren Motte is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of several books, and an editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature.
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Robert Beachy - Gay Berlin
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Robert Beachy is a history professor at Yonsei University and the author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Malcolm Harris - Silicon Valley
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Malcolm Harris is a journalist and author of several books. His most recent work is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World.