Anthony Bale and I sat down at the National Humanities Center this week to talk about his wonderful new translation of Sir John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels for New Books in History. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Book of Marvels and Travels: An Interview
I recently spoke with Susan Huang about her gorgeous new book on Daoist visual culture. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Picturing the True Form: An Interview
I recently spoke with Carl Yamamoto about his new book on Buddhism, Lama Zhang, and twelfth-century Tibet. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Vision and Violence: An Interview
I recently spoke with Christopher Nugent about his excellent recent book on Tang poetry and its material history. It was great fun, and you can listen to it here. Continue reading Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: An Interview
I recently spoke with historian and fiction writer Minsoo Kang about his recent work on automata and robots in the European imagination. You can find it here. Continue reading Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: An Interview
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