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
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
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
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
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
I had the pleasure of speaking with the very thoughtful Jack Chen about his recent book on literature, rulership, and a fascinating emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Poetics of Sovereignty: An Interview
I recently spoke with with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about his new book on violence, intimacy, and images in the early modern Eurasian world. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Courtly Encounters: An Interview
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