Recall This Book

A podcast by Recall This Book Team

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69 Episodes

  1. 25 RTB Books in Dark Times 2: Stephen McCauley (JP)

    Published: 4/2/2020
  2. 24 RTB Books in Dark Times 1: Alex Star (JP)

    Published: 3/26/2020
  3. 23 Recall This Buck 1: Chris Desan on Making Money (EF, JP)

    Published: 3/20/2020
  4. 9* Women in Political Power, with Manduhai Buyandelger (Rebroadcast, in honor of Elizabeth Warren)

    Published: 3/15/2020
  5. 22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)

    Published: 2/7/2020
  6. 21 Silvia Bottinelli: Food, Art, Food Art!

    Published: 1/17/2020
  7. 20 The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)

    Published: 12/19/2019
  8. 19 Scientists, collaboration, and groupthink with Albion Lawrence (EF, JP)

    Published: 12/5/2019
  9. 18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)

    Published: 11/15/2019
  10. 17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)

    Published: 10/31/2019
  11. 16 de/industrialization with Christine Walley (EF and JP)

    Published: 10/25/2019
  12. 15x Afterthoughts on Zadie Smith (John and Elizabeth)

    Published: 10/1/2019
  13. 15 In Focus: Zadie Smith (JP)

    Published: 9/26/2019
  14. 14x Afterthoughts about the Cixin Liu interview (Pu Wang and John)

    Published: 8/13/2019
  15. 14 In Focus: Cixin Liu (in English, with Pu Wang, JP)

    Published: 8/13/2019
  16. 14c 刘慈欣访谈中文版 Cixin Liu with Pu Wang (in Chinese)

    Published: 8/13/2019
  17. 13 Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson

    Published: 8/2/2019
  18. 12 RTB Presents “The Electro–Library” (with Jared Green)

    Published: 7/6/2019
  19. 11 Xenophobia and Ethno-Nationalism, 1973 to today (Quinn Slobodian)

    Published: 6/14/2019
  20. 10 Life, Writing, and Life Writing with Helena DeBres

    Published: 5/16/2019

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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.