New Books in Popular Culture

New Books in Popular Culture


Latest Episodes

Piotr Florczyk, "Swimming Pool" (Bloombury, 2024)
March 12, 2024

An interview with Piotr Florczyk

Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
March 11, 2024

Its the UConn Popcast, and Taylor Swift is by some measures the most popular person on the planet. Her periodic reinventions set the mass cultural terms of debate, and her political interventions through exhorting her fans on social media lead to hug

Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
March 08, 2024

Part Two of director Denis VilleneuvesDunefilms embeds viewers among the Fremen, the Indigenous inhabitants of the planet Arrakis. The sole source of the valuable drug spice, Arrakis has been colonized and its resources extracted by the Imperium. The F