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Off Book: The Improvised Musical

Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino

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It takes years for a Broadway musical to hit the stage, but on OFF BOOK: The Improvised Musical, you get a brand new original musical every week! Each episode, Jessica McKenna, Zach Reino and a special guest create a new musical on the spot. Accompanied by Scott Passarella, King of Pianists, Pianist of Kings.
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Facing Fate

Dumb Dragons Productions

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An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.
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Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals

Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals

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Join Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Music Director Sam Scheidler, and drummer Chris Ditton as they create brand new musicals — completely on the fly — alongside some of Chicago’s most charming music improvisers and performers. Welcome to the scene!
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Tabletop Tunes: The Improvised Musical RPG

Sean Meagher, Gabe Greenspan, Greg Smith, Mary Lou

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Four Improvisers and a special guest embark on a new tabletop RPG adventure every episode, where players are just as likely to roll for initiative as they are to break into song! Episodes are self-contained, so jump in wherever to listen as Gabe, Greg, Sean, and Mary Lou roll dice and make up a musical on the spot. Welcome to the table!
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Noise

CJSW 90.9 FM

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For over 30 years, NOISE has been the home of the avant-garde, experimental, and free expression! Join host Steve as he takes you on a journey through all that is NOISE. You'll hear everything from improvisational composition, free jazz, neo-classical and plunderphonics to post rock, extreme, outsider, and more! So sit back, turn it up, and embrace the NOISE!
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Real news, improvised comedy. Improvisers and comedians Alec Shea (@alecsheaimprov) and Ryan Charnoky (@Ryan_Stands_Up) read and discuss interesting, weird, and completely true news stories from around the world, then improvise comedic scenes inspired by the story, the people involved and the discussion that follows. They also discuss improv techniques and comedy styles. Weekly episodes with Ryan and Alec, and perhaps sometimes... special guests! (Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee the news sto ...
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Errant Space

Craig Chin

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Ambient Soundscapes by Errant Space A soundtrack suitable for working, sleeping or spacing out. Use as background music; best at a low volume. All music. Set to loop if desired.
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Dayna Gowan is a speaker, improviser, and Facilitator of Fun, and the Founder of Improvly Speaking. Each episode, she brings you golden, beautiful, delicious nuggets of wisdom about public speaking, improv, performance, creativity and anything in between. Learning public speaking and improvisation skills has changed her life and made her a more confident speaker, colleague, and friend. Listeners will be inspired to face their public speaking fears, try new things, flex their creativity muscl ...
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Wasting ALL the Time

Drowning Man Productions

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Wasting ALL the Time is a weekly audio improv comedy podcast hosted by Cody Parcell, Dave Paterson, Jes Deprez, and Jon Hansen with occasional guests. We improvise scenes and play improv games!
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Improvised Golden Age Radio is broadcasting now! Veterans of Chicago’s best improv shows like Baby Wants Candy, Improvised Shakespeare Company, Hitch Cocktails and more bring you an hour of hilarious long form improv! Playing with inspiration from the Swinging 30s, 40s and 50s, these cool cats will have you in stitches with a small twist on the long form improv Chicago is famous for.
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THERAPY

Vincenzo Giarrusso & Michael Sheinberg

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Being a cheapskate Dr. Vincent Giarrusso has regular sessions with Michael Sheinberg, a psychotherapist in training These are the recordings.
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Hex Girlfriends is a fantasy improv podcast hosted by Liv Prescott, tenth-generation witch, and Arlo Timberloup, born and bred werewolf. These two ex-girlfriends are here to give a world of mystical advice to their town of Bloodsborrow, home of many monsters, cryptids, and magical beings. They talk about everything from their favourite TV show to the latest threat from the town loan shark and offer their life advice to anyone needing a little guidance. While they might be exes, their “strong ...
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Into Your Head

Neal O'Carroll

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Neal O’Carroll spins hilarious offbeat humour monologues fueled by untethered imagination, generic energy drinks and a uniquely absurd twist on Irish wit and dry humour in a completely improvised stream of consciousness one man comedy cast.
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Phil Hendrie's historic improvisational genius goes to work everyday in this divinely hilarious satire of the modern media. And that's only part of what's really going on here. Get a hold of this top shelf entertainment from one of the acknowledged masters of comedy and social satire.
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This is Scripty Business. The made-up show about made-up movies. We have three episodes to turn three random words into one amazing movie pitch. Episode one is all about the three-act structure and setting. Episode two is about characters and themes. And episode three is A, B, C plotlines and sequences. But here is the thing. For each new episode in the Arc we throw in a game-changing, world-shaking, devastating and hilarious curveballs with the dreaded Wheel of Doom! And even worse, every e ...
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Interrogator Morgan Rhalls is hauled out of prison and assigned a team of hand-picked operatives to lead on a mission ordered by Roboute Guilliman himself. Her task is so secret that she's forced to operate under special condition - her actions will be denied even by her own Inquisitor. Can Morgan become a true Agent of the Inquisition? Or will she and her team fall to Chaos before her duty is done? Find out now!
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Dive into the art of guitar and improvisation with expert insights, practical tips, and inspiring conversations. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, this series covers everything from technique and theory to creative approaches for developing your unique sound. Join us for engaging discussions, gear reviews, and interviews with musicians who live and breathe the craft.
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THE THIRD STORY features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by musician Leo Sidran. Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, risk, and reward are deeply moving and compelling for all of us as we embark on our own creative journeys.
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Park Creatures

Toogood and Thom

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Season two out now! Join the twisted ramblings of dogwalkers Ella and Janie, endlessly trudging the paths of Hampstead Heath along with thousands of other Cockapoo owners. A hellish mudbath of frustration, friendship and frolics. Created by Sarah Toogood and Sarah Thom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Exploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves. Get more brainy miscellany with TED Radio Hour+. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/ted
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. RPG Major: Stories of kindness and bravery in a world full of darkness, mystery, and magic, told one song at a time. Welcome to Foxglove, a modern city where cryptids lurk in coffee shops and supernatural cases land on the desk of two unlikely private investigators: Mara, a charismatic Siren, and Aubrey, a Former Fairy Queen. This isn’t your typical actual play: every investigation unfolds as an improvised musical, with brand new songs inspired by the story in each episode. Like the best s ...
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Geoff Gascoyne chats to big-name (and upcoming) jazz soloists as they pick and play their favourite jazz standards and talk about their jazz lives. A mix of candid discussion, technical insights and spontaneous improvisation, this weekly podcast is a must-listen for everyone that loves jazz. Geoff is a renowned jazz bass player and prolific composer and producer with credits on over 100 albums and a book of contacts to die for! He is also executive producer of the best-selling Quartet jazz s ...
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Building the perfect Christmas playlist episode by episode. Musicians, comedians and podcasters recommend songs and Arnie Niekamp (Hello from the Magic Tavern, Jackbox Games) decides if they're added to his ever-growing Christmas music playlist or not.
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Exploring what it means to be faithfully Christian in our always-changing world with its challenges and opportunities. I like to think out loud and talk with friends about biblical texts, books, politics, sports, music, films, and basically anything that interests me. This is all an attempt to be fully alive in God’s good world and to enjoy the liberating reality of the Christian gospel.
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Let's go to the mall! It's the first episode of 2026, and we've got a DUO. Charming guests Barb Jackson and Hugh Walker (Director and Writer/Composer of "Evangelikids!") join us for an all-new improvised musical, set in the long lost world of US shopping malls. A captive Claire's, a submerged Spencer Gifts, troubling taekwondo, and more. Yay capita…
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A look back on Season 1 with gratitude from many of the contributors Mara Vertere is Lauren Drake (@laladrake) Aubrey Stump is Camilla Franklin (@Camillastrator) Music by Noah Samuels (@Samuels_Noah) GM is Helix (@RPGMajor) Wanderlust: The Musical - https://crowdfundr.com/wanderlust Songs from this episode: The Triumph of the Bull You Are Mine Come…
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For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Duke UP, 2023), Arseli Dokumacı draws on ethnographic work with dif…
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In this episode, Alec and Ryan read and discuss the story about the racoon that broke into a Virginia liquor store and went on a drunken rampage. Sounds like a classic Friday night, am I right!?!?!?!??!!? Then they improvise scenes about the liquor store calling pest control, and the racoon's deteriorating relationship with his wife. Follow them at…
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A young lad tries his shot at living his dream, only be told he’s useless and will never amount to anything. A tale we can all relate to this Christmas. Check out www.improvisedradio.com for upcoming shows at Bughouse, iO Chicago, and Crawlspace Comedy in Kalamazoo. Send the creators a text! Support the show https://www.improvisedradio.com/ https:/…
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The following was recorded LIVE at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles on December 16th 2025, and is the NINTH annual Off Book Holiday Spectacular! It features the entire fam band (Scott Passarella, Brett Morris, and Dana Wickens) and as per tradition welcomes the return of our incredible friends Paul F Tompkins and Nicole Parker! Join us as we embark on…
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Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare with regard to legal gender. Based on empirical research conducted in Denmark, the book engages in some of the most controversial issues surrounding trans and gender diverse rights. The theoretical ana…
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In this (open-access) book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As she shows, the so-called eastern decadence of the Emperor Theodosius and his successors was in fact a calculated revolution in masculinity and the representation of imperial power. Here, the emperor's hard yet soft, mature yet …
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Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process? Having spent over a decade researching …
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Theodore Karamanski joins fellow Lake Michigan enthusiast Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan. Looking down from outer space a vast expanse of blue appears in the heart of North America. Of the magnificent chain of inland seas, only one of those bodies of water--Lake Michigan--is entirely within …
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Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind. Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on them…
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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration. Helen J. Nicholson's book Women and the Crusades (Oxford UP, 2023) surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military exp…
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In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks of torture and fatal wounds—hands bound by rope, machete cuts—and also for signs of identity: how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the t…
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As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung to Jewish heritage while striving to help their children make sense of their lives as Jews in the modern world. In her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature (Princeton U…
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The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving force behind the development and decline of civilizations across the centuries. The author, Peter Frankopan, takes readers on a journey through history, showcasing how natural phenomena such as volcanic eru…
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Ecclesiastes has long been viewed as the great existential work of the Hebrew Bible, containing the famous cry "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." As part of a search for enduring meaning, it questions the nature of work, mortality, happiness, justice, goodness, and life itself. Abounding with careful observations, disappointments, and insights, E…
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New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. T. R. Johnson's book New Orleans: A Writer's City (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides detailed discussions of all of the most si…
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Phil thanks Dave Verhooven and sidekick Davey Dixon for bailing him out when he doesn’t show for last Friday’s show. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy Hours of exclusive content, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See omnystudio.com/listener for pri…
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Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latte…
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In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was The Wrong Man, a bracing drama based on the real-life false arrest of Queens musician Christopher “Manny” Balestrero. Manny's ordeal is part of a larger story of other miscarriages of justice …
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How can we—jazz fans, musicians, writers, and historians—understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brubeck leveraged his fame as a jazz musician and status as a composer for social justice causes, and in doing so, held to a belief system that, during the civil rights movement, modeled a progressive appr…
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Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation that the triple disaster of March 2011 “exposed severe deficiencies in Japan’s nuclear safety governance.” This is the starting point for the rather curious story of the regulatory reforms taken up in the…
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Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo's dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be count…
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Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past (Oxford UP, 2023) challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when…
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In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director (acting) Eli Karetny speaks with philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre about liberalism not merely as a political doctrine, but as a lived way of life. Against the backdrop of rising populism, nationalism, and post-liberal regimes, Lefebvre revisits the liberal tradition—from Locke and Mill to Rawls …
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The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their place in a nation still grappling with the legacy of slavery. Often remembered as a period of failed progressive change that gave way to Jim Crow and second-class citizenship, Reconstruction’s tragic …
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Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider – but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime. “Effective Altruism” and relat…
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A wild New Year’s offering. It’s a classic from the year 2000 the Steve Bosell “KY jelly incident.”Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy Hours of exclusive content, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Malcom Esposito, trying to expand his entertainment “career” interviews Phil Hendrie. Sign up for a Backstage Pass and enjoy Hours of exclusive content, Phil's new podcast, Classic podcasts, Bobbie Dooley's podcasts, special live streaming events and shows, and oh so very much more… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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According to a famous prophetic report, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them.” What does “imitation” here mean? Rather, what does this statement really mean at all, and how have Muslims historically understood it? How did this simple report become a doctrine in the Islamic tradition? What does this hadith mean for Muslims today, in an inc…
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Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil campaigners? Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States (Routledge, 2023) addresses these issues head on, to make a radical, but compelling argument in favour of the l…
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Philip Stern places the corporation―more than the Crown―at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australi…
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Mount Rushmore is something of an American Rorschach test. Some look at the monument and see American patriotic ideals carved into a mountainside. Others see only the rank hypocrisy of American presidents blasted into an Indigenous sacred site. In A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, writer and journalist Matthew Dav…
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A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The H…
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In this episode Drora Arussy speaks with historian Adam S. Ferziger about his latest book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism (New York University Press, 2025). Ferziger, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and one of the leading voices in the study of modern religious movements, offers a compelling exploration…
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Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2025) by Bo Tao uncovers the extraordinary world of a Japanese man who was once described as the “Saint Francis” or the “Gandhi” of Japan. A renowned religious figure on the world stage, Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960) received wide acclaim for his work as a …
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Erinnerungskämpfe: Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein (Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023) is a new, provocative volume on German memory cultures and politics edited by Jürgen Zimmerer. What can be loosely translated as Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness is a collection of chapters that lay bare a mosaic of a diverse German memory landscape a…
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What is “America” not only as a political entity but in our imagination? How can we properly envision America, without repeating clichés that frame America as either reactionary or revolutionary, repressive or liberatory? I spoke with Eyal Peretz about his book American Medium, which looks at Hollywood to re-imagine the concept of "America" through…
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In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-American identities--forcibly transported Irish, Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Irish--into American histories and representations of race. Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish …
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What's the secret to scoring a reservation at a hot new restaurant? When should you enter a lottery to increase your odds of winning? Why did your neighbor's kid get into a nearby preschool while yours didn't? Who gets priority for a life-saving organ donation? These outcomes are not a matter of luck. Instead, they depend on how we navigate hidden …
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From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimble…
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Stuart Carroll's Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023) transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during the t…
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Father Ron Rolheiser’s new book Insane for the Light: A Spirituality for Our Wisdom Years, which is about how to grow old well and be fruitful, first giving your life away and then your death so as to be a blessing. That’s a recipe for joy. We also talked about mysticism, St. John of the Cross, and some miraculous experiences in real people’s lives…
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It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 8, “Charm Offensive” and episode 9, “La Chico o El Mundo.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network…
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In the October 12, 2023 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg offered an annotated list of the 100 greatest film books of all time. Drawing on a jury of 322 people who make, study, and are otherwise connected to the movies, Feinberg assembled an annotated list that reads like the ultimate film study syllabus. In this interview, Dan Moran …
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Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and arguments that experiences of various sorts (perceptions, mediumship, possession, and animistic experiences) can lend justification to spirit-…
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Apologies for more muffled voice than usual, due to minor mouthal injury. Neal staunchly defends the business practices of J. Wellington Wimpy, eplains why your dog would prefer you didn’t drink from puddles, uncovers parallels between The Truman Show (1998) and Elvis Presley, looks at parking arrangements on car ferries, reveals his childhood cord…
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