Recall This Book
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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 wa...
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- 63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)
- 62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)
- 61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)
- 60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)
- 59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)
- 58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)
- 57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley'” (JP)
- 56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
- 55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld