Recall This Book

A podcast by Recall This Book Team

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Arts

69 Episodes

  1. 102 Sassan Tabatabai: poetry, observation, and form (EF, JP)

    Published: 4/6/2023

  2. 64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth

    Published: 9/16/2021

  3. 63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)

    Published: 9/2/2021

  4. 62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)

    Published: 8/19/2021

  5. 61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)

    Published: 8/5/2021

  6. 60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)

    Published: 7/8/2021

  7. 59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)

    Published: 6/24/2021

  8. 58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)

    Published: 6/17/2021

  9. 57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley'” (JP)

    Published: 6/10/2021

  10. 56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”

    Published: 6/3/2021

  11. 55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

    Published: 5/27/2021

  12. 54 Crossover Month #3: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Elizabeth McMahon, JP)

    Published: 4/22/2021

  13. 53 Crossover Month #2: Novel Dialogue (Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Robbins, JP)

    Published: 4/8/2021

  14. 52 Crossover Month #1: “High Theory” and the Pastoral (Kim, Saronik, JP)

    Published: 3/25/2021

  15. 51 Recall This Buck 3: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Ideology (Adaner, JP)

    Published: 2/19/2021

  16. 50 Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy; or, Why Words Matter

    Published: 2/5/2021

  17. 49 The Capitol Insurrection and Asymmetrical Policing: David Cunningham (EF, JP)

    Published: 1/21/2021

  18. 48 Transform, Not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation (PW, EF)

    Published: 1/15/2021

  19. 47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)

    Published: 12/17/2020

  20. 46 Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)

    Published: 12/3/2020

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Recall This Book is a podcast exploring important books on a pressing topic. Each episode focuses on a contemporary problem or event and zeroes in on a book or books that shed light on it. We look backwards to see into the future: we can understand things about the future by choosing texts that shed a sideways light on our present situation, and attempt to shake up the terms of present debate by showing how a topic was approached in earlier times when a different version of this question had come up before. We aim to have lively barstool discussions--a warm but involved and potentially argumentative hashing out of the best way to think through difficult present-day issues. We bring on writers to talk about their own books, or scholars to talk about the books that are helping them navigate best the world in which we live.