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65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
Peter Godfrey-Smith knows his cephalopods. Once of CUNY and now a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Sydney, his truly capacious career includes books such as Theory and...
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Another Perspective on Non-Human Minds
While listening to Peter Godfrey-Smith discuss octopuses on this month’s Recall This Book podcast, I thought of my time with orphaned chimpanzees in Cameroon from 2013 to 2019. For Other Minds,...
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66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez...
Octopus month has morphed seamlessly into Multispecies month here at RtB, bringing with it not only last week’s piece on chimpanzees, but also this sparkling conversation about all sorts of...
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67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon (JP, EF, 11/4)
RtB Book Industry month kicks off with a simple question: What do you make of Amazon? Is it the new Sears Roebuck? A terrifying monopoly threat? Satisfaction (a paperback in your mailbox, a Kindle...
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The Novel in the Age of Amazon and the Commercialization of Culture
by Jing Huang Does a free-market foster or undermine our creativity? How does the market impact cultural creations? Recall this Book’s recent episode made me think of these questions. In the episode,...
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68* Martin Puchner: Gilgamesh to Amazon (EF, JP)
Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very origins of writing struck us as perfect companion to...
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69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on private equity (JP, EF)
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series, John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private...
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Points of Comparison in Time: Methods in the Anthropology of Finance
by Aneil Tripathy As a fellow anthropologist of finance, I especially enjoyed this month’s Recall this Book conversation with Dan Souleles. His trajectory—from studying monks to private equity...
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70 Recall this Buck 5: “Studying Up” with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and...
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71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: fiction as streaming, genre as portal...
This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of...
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Jennifer Egan, Reverberator
By Paige Eggebrecht This essay first appeared on the website Novel Dialogue, our partner podcast for this month’s episodes, and is reprinted by permission, with our thanks. If you like what you read,...
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72 Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP )
Our second January Novel Dialogue conversation is with Caryl Phillips, professor of English at Yale and world-renowned for novels ranging from The Final Passage to 2018’s A View of the Empire at...
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73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)
Crossover Month at Recall this Book ends with a glance sideways at the doings of our pals Saronik and Kim of the delightfully lapidary podcast High Theory. Refresh your sense of them with Recall this...
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74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places (EF, JP)
John and Elizabeth had the marvelous fortune to talk with George Kalogeris about his new book Winthropos (LSU Press, 2021). The title comes from the “Greek-ified” name that George’s father gave to...
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Roots and Ruins: On George Kalogeris’s Winthropos
by Dominick Knowles In “Church Bells Will Signal,” the Greek poet and revolutionary Yiannis Ritsos mourns and celebrates the oppressed and martyred during the fight for a liberated Greece: “those ones...
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75* Sean Hill talks about bodies in space and time with Elizabeth Bradfield
This July 2021 conversation (the asterisk in 75* indicates a rebroadcast) features Brandeis poet Elizabeth Bradfield, and the poet Sean Hill, author of Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (2008) and Dangerous...
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76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)
John and new host Jerome Tharaud (author of Apocalyptic Geographies) learn exactly how the growth of America’s public universities relied on shameful seizures of Native American land. Working with...
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Land-Grab Universities and Me
by Anik Chartrand As an indigenous person, listening to “Land-Grab Universities” (Recall this Book 76) made me reflect on my own education–acquired from a land-grant institution. It was both sobering...
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77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson (EF, JP)
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history of...
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever: Anna Vaninskaya (EF, JP)
Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy’s power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 (...
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