2925 Episodes

  1. Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/6/2025

  2. Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/5/2025

  3. Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/4/2025

  4. Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/3/2025

  5. Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/2/2025

  6. Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)

    Published: 4/1/2025

  7. Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/31/2025

  8. Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/30/2025

  9. Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/29/2025

  10. William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/28/2025

  11. William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

    Published: 3/26/2025

  12. Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/24/2025

  13. Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/23/2025

  14. Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All

    Published: 3/23/2025

  15. Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/22/2025

  16. David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/21/2025

  17. Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/20/2025

  18. Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

    Published: 3/20/2025

  19. Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/19/2025

  20. Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/18/2025

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