New Books in Popular Culture

New Books in Popular Culture


Latest Episodes

Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
December 17, 2023

Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths drew people of all backgrounds. They were places suffused with nudity, sex, and mag

Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
December 14, 2023

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewri

Lynn Z. Bloom, "Recipe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
December 13, 2023

An interview with Lynn Z. Bloom

Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
December 12, 2023

An interview with Rob Harvilla

Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
December 09, 2023

An interview with Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel