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Podcast

Picturing Asian America

Episode 58: Historian Mae Ngai on Corky Lee’s photographs of Asian American life

September 6, 2024 • by Claire Potter

On July 23, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris reached the threshold of Democratic National Convention delegates that she needed to become the party’s de facto presidential nominee. In the two days since President Joe Biden had ceded the nomination, a diverse party had become re-energized around the 2024 race and ...

East Asia & Pacific

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

A graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing shines a light on a rarely discussed period of Malaysian history

June 5, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In the lonely period of the pandemic, Vanessa Chan could not get home to her family. In those years, she lost her mother. She sheltered in place. And she wrote her first book, The Storm We Made....

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, <em>The Storm We Made</em>

Podcast

Typewriter Combat

Episode 54: A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

May 23, 2024 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, "Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals"...

Podcast

Write Like a Man

Episode 54: Ronnie Grinberg on her new book, Write Like a Man

May 14, 2024 • by Claire Potter

In Episode 54 of Why Now?, host Claire Potter interviews Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like a Man....

Podcast

Nobody Else Has My Eyes

Episode 53: A conversation with Nell Irvin Painter about her new book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

April 30, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Episode 53: A conversation with Nell Irvin Painter about her new book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays...

Europe & Central Asia

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

March 25, 2024 • by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

In a way, our memory culture both in Germany and in Israel is an exact reversal of the reality revealed by the film. Perhaps that's why the film seems to annoy many people in Germany, who complain that it shows the "perpetrator's perspective." But memory must also be a memory ...

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s <em>Zone of Interest</em>

History

Threshold Dwelling in the Ruins of Llano del Rio

Excavating a socialist colony in the desert

March 19, 2024 • by Joscelyn Jurich

In the desert's shifting realms, mirages dance with possibility and impossibility. Amidst the stark expanse, a threshold-like bardo blurs distinctions between creation and collapse, thriving and weakness....

Threshold Dwelling in the Ruins of Llano del Rio

History

Democracy’s Endgame?

A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope

January 31, 2024 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Though surrounded by these largely man-made fires, we’ve at least been trying to put them out. It would be so much easier, though, to fight these fires if they were not fueled by massive efforts to dismantle the democratic order....

History

Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public

How social media makes possible a more democratic republic of letters

January 17, 2024 • by Rose Botaish

For many museums and archives, social media has already become a space to share more widely images and information from their collections....

Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public

Past Present

Controversies over Christmas “Classics”

Episode 405

December 19, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In Episode 405, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss controversies over Christmas “classics.”...

Podcast

Where In the World Is Merze Tate?

A conversation with historian Barbara Savage about freedom, independence, and her new biography, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

December 18, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In this episode of "Why Now?," Claire Potter and Barbara D. Savage discuss the life of trailblazing Black academic Vernie Merze Tate....

Podcast

Why the Blind Should Lead the Blind

A conversation with Andrew Leland about the history and politics of disability and his book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

December 11, 2023 • by Claire Potter

Visually disabled people increasingly turn to institutions and support networks that are created, designed, and implemented by other blind people....

History

Picturing Asian America

Episode 58: Historian Mae Ngai on Corky Lee’s photographs of Asian American life

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

A graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing shines a light on a rarely discussed period of Malaysian history

Typewriter Combat

Episode 54: A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

Write Like a Man

Episode 54: Ronnie Grinberg on her new book, Write Like a Man

Nobody Else Has My Eyes

Episode 53: A conversation with Nell Irvin Painter about her new book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

Threshold Dwelling in the Ruins of Llano del Rio

Excavating a socialist colony in the desert

Democracy’s Endgame?

A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope

Controversies over Christmas “Classics”

Episode 405

Where In the World Is Merze Tate?

A conversation with historian Barbara Savage about freedom, independence, and her new biography, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Why the Blind Should Lead the Blind

A conversation with Andrew Leland about the history and politics of disability and his book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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