New Books in Popular Culture
Latest Episodes
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
An interview with Stevie Suan
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
An interview with Noah Askin
Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
An interview with Ben Pitcher
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)
An interview with John Allen Paulos
Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
An interview with Mitzi Szereto
Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)
An interview with Thomas Beller
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
An interview with Natasha Lasky
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
An interview with Daniel Immerwahr
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
An interview with Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell