Working Knowledge: An Interview
Joel Isaac and I recently talked about his new book on Kuhn, the human sciences, and the “interstitial academy.” You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Working Knowledge: An Interview
Warriors of the Cloisters: An Interview
Chris Beckwith and I recently talked about his new book on the recursive method, the history of science, and Central Asia. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Warriors of the Cloisters: An Interview
Lin Shu, Inc.: An Interview
I had a great time talking with Michael Gibbs Hill about his recent book on translation, literature, and modern China. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Lin Shu, Inc.: An Interview
The I Ching: An Interview
I talked with the wonderful Richard Smith recently about his elegant and readable new biography of the I Ching. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The I Ching: An Interview
Read to Me 2: The One Who Claws At His Names
[via Printculture] The wonderful Cabinet magazine hosted a performed bestiary one recent afternoon at the New Museum. For 4.5 hours, a small group of writers, artists, professors, curators, and others talked about a series of creatures in order from smallest (ant) to largest (whale). We each had 10 minutes. It was an absolute blast. To represent my creature, the phoenix, I wrote and read a short story based on … Continue reading Read to Me 2: The One Who Claws At His Names
The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: An Interview
Gene Cooper and I talked recently about his new book on the “red fire” of market and temple fairs in eastern China. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: An Interview
The Pseudo-Science Wars: An Interview
Michel Gordin and I recently talked about his new book on Immanuel Velikovsky, the “first grand wizard of the Universal Order of Mass Pseudo-Scholarship,” and science at the margins in Cold War America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Pseudo-Science Wars: An Interview
Loving Faster Than Light: An Interview
Katy Price and I recently talked about her engaging and elegantly written new book on the engagement with Einsteinian relativity by various reading publics in early twentieth-century Britain. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Loving Faster Than Light: An Interview
Slurp!: An Interview
I had a great time talking with Barak Kushner about his recent book on the history of ramen in Japan and beyond. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Slurp!: An Interview
The Insect and the Image: An Interview
Janice Neri and I recently talked about her beautiful new book on the imaging of insects in early modernity and its surprisingly wide-ranging consequences for understanding the history of science, art, and global exchange. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Insect and the Image: An Interview
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