Matt Wisnioski and I recently spoke about his great new book on the myriad ways that engineers navigated new landscapes of technology and its discontents in 1960s America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Engineers for Change: An Interview
Lucas Klein and I recently spoke about his thoughtful and evocative new translation of Xi Chuan’s poetry. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Notes on the Mosquito: An Interview
Deborah Coen and I recently talked about her fascinating new book on earthquakes, observation, and the science of disaster in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Earthquake Observers: An Interview
Bruce Rusk and I recently sat down to talk about his wonderful new book on poetics, classical scholarship, and the history of Shijing studies in China. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Critics and Commentators: An Interview
Barbara Ambros and I recently talked about her great new book on pet memorial rites in modern Japan. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Bones of Contention: 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
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
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
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
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
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