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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ge... more

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Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at once responded to and sought to influence the tumultuous times in which he lived—decades during which ... more

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation (Duke UP, 2026) takes Black speculative fiction as a central archive for understanding global security culture from the Reagan administration to the present. Drawing on black femini... more

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (U Hawai'i Press, 2025), Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls atte... more

What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader, medieval Europe that modern historians write about? 

Christian Raffensperger's edited vol... more

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Recent Guests

Natasha Heller
Associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, focusing on Buddhism and Chinese religions.
University of Virginia
Episode: Natasha Heller, "Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan" (U Hawai'i Press, 2025)
Alison Rowlands
Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Essex
University of Essex
Episode: Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Anne Sokolsky
Professor of Japanese Literature at Denison College focuses on women writers in Japan.
Denison College
Episode: Anne Sokolsky ed., "Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Catherine Clarke
Professor at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and author of A History of England in 25 Poems.
University of London
Episode: Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Zoë McGee
Author of "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel"
Manchester University Press
Episode: Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Sarah Dowling
A literary critic and poet based at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Episode: Sarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
T. R. Johnson
Author of New Orleans: A Writer's City and English professor at Tulane.
Cambridge University Press
Episode: T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Suk-Bae Suh
Author and professor at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in Korean literature
University of California, Irvine
Episode: Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Mike Jay
Author and curator, known for exploring the history of drugs
Yale University Press
Episode: Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

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    for all authors, interviewers should allow time for them to present their perspectives, but there should also be thorough and respectful challenging, including sources, methodology, potential gaps, and questioning about contrary perspectives. this is not always done, to the detriment of the audience and the authors.

    where the podcast fails is where so... more

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Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
Q: Why did you write this book?
He wanted to challenge the traditional narratives that neglect Eastern Europe and emphasize the importance of primary sources in understanding the medieval worldview.
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
Q: How did you become a historian?
Christian describes his childhood fascination with knights and castles, studying Russian in high school, and a pivotal college seminar on Vikings that connected his interests.
Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Q: What are you working on now?
I'm working on another case of Witchcraft from Rothenburg involving a man accused of sorcery in 1663.
Madhuri Deshmukh, "The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Q: What do you find about the impact of the grindmill tradition on literary production?
The Grindmills tradition is central to how poetry came to be theorized in Marathi and how it came to be written.
Madhuri Deshmukh, "The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Q: What would have been the difference had you looked at the archive, solely at the archive and texts for your project?
Engaging directly with the women and their performances provided a deeper understanding of their songs and their significance in their lives.

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