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Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
64 hours 58 mins; December 11, 2025
YIVO Archives and Library, "100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" (YIVO, 2025)
31 mins; December 10, 2025
Timothy Gitzen, "Unscripting the Present" (SUNY Press, 2025)
41 mins; December 09, 2025
Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)
44 mins; December 05, 2025
Pluribus Episodes 4&5 Analysis: We Need a Little Space
51 mins; December 05, 2025
Elliott Kalan, "Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; December 04, 2025
Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
50 mins; December 04, 2025
Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
78 hours 38 mins; December 03, 2025
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 30, 2025
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
84 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2025
Josh Levine, "Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated" (ECW Press, 2025)
40 mins; November 29, 2025
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
58 mins; November 28, 2025
Natalie Porter, "Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders" (ECW Press, 2025)
45 mins; November 28, 2025
Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)
40 mins; November 26, 2025
Sharon White Rewires Disco
68 hours 0 mins; November 25, 2025
Adrienne Domasin ed., "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us" (Playstory Press, 2025)
15 mins; November 23, 2025
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
41 mins; November 23, 2025
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Michael Brown, "Eyeliner’s Buy Now" (Bloomsbury 2025)
62 hours 44 mins; November 22, 2025
Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
38 mins; November 17, 2025
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
48 mins; November 17, 2025
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 17, 2025
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 37 mins; November 16, 2025
Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything
28 mins; November 16, 2025
Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
70 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2025
Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; November 12, 2025
James Brown's War on Disco
61 hours 26 mins; November 11, 2025
James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)
61 hours 42 mins; November 08, 2025
Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
41 mins; November 07, 2025
Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
77 hours 58 mins; November 07, 2025
Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
60 hours 59 mins; November 05, 2025
Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
60 hours 59 mins; November 05, 2025
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
28 mins; November 03, 2025
Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
51 mins; November 02, 2025
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; October 31, 2025
Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)
34 mins; October 29, 2025
Disco's Revenge
59 mins; October 28, 2025
Kubrick’s Worlds: Power, Paranoia, and the Politics of the Human Condition
90 hours 9 mins; October 28, 2025
Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
99 hours 48 mins; October 26, 2025
Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 25, 2025
Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
63 hours 49 mins; October 24, 2025
Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024)
66 hours 13 mins; October 24, 2025
What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
64 hours 41 mins; October 23, 2025
Greg Soden, "Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020-2025)" (Earth Island Books, 2025)
38 mins; October 22, 2025
Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
38 mins; October 21, 2025
Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
55 mins; October 21, 2025
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
56 mins; October 20, 2025
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2025
Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World" (Weldon Owen, 2025)
34 mins; October 19, 2025
Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, "Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
43 mins; October 18, 2025
Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
63 hours 3 mins; October 16, 2025
The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
50 mins; October 16, 2025
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
33 mins; October 15, 2025
Signal Award Re-Release: Lost Women of Disco
50 mins; October 14, 2025
Jason Schneider, "That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence" (Anvil Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 12, 2025
Lorraine Besser, "The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It" (Balance, 2024)
50 mins; October 11, 2025
Chris Dalla Riva, "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
69 hours 42 mins; October 11, 2025
Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 11, 2025
Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 10, 2025
John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
56 mins; October 10, 2025
In The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift Addresses Love, Glamour, and Grit
30 mins; October 07, 2025
Audrey Golden, "Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats" (Da Capo Press, 2025)
43 mins; October 04, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 02, 2025
Roddy Bottum, "The Royal We" (Akashic Books, 2025)
51 mins; October 01, 2025
Disco Sucks
61 hours 40 mins; September 30, 2025
Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell eds., "Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
47 mins; September 30, 2025
"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
71 hours 30 mins; September 29, 2025
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters
58 mins; September 29, 2025
Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans" (Routledge, 2025)
71 hours 42 mins; September 27, 2025
Sahan Jayasuriya, "Don't Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen" (Feral House, 2025)
68 hours 46 mins; September 26, 2025
Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
49 mins; September 25, 2025
Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, and Stan Altman, "Twice Blessed: A Story of Unconditional Love" (Fordham UP, 2025)
52 mins; September 22, 2025
Kawika Guillermo, "Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games" (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025)
30 mins; September 22, 2025
Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)
43 mins; September 20, 2025
James Campion, "Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era" (Backbeat Books, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; September 18, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
45 mins; September 17, 2025
Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly
52 mins; September 15, 2025
Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 32 mins; September 12, 2025
From Stonewall to Studio 54
47 mins; September 10, 2025
Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Taylor Cole Miller eds., "The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
72 hours 9 mins; September 10, 2025
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
74 hours 0 mins; September 10, 2025
Human Leadership for Humane Technology
46 mins; September 09, 2025
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
34 mins; September 09, 2025
Joelle Kidd, "Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture" (ECW Press, 2025)
48 mins; September 07, 2025
Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
43 mins; September 06, 2025
Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music" (Jawbone Press, 2025)
59 mins; September 05, 2025
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
37 mins; September 05, 2025
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025)
48 mins; September 05, 2025
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation
54 mins; September 04, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry" (U California Press, 2025)
36 mins; September 02, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024)
84 hours 21 mins; August 30, 2025
Pauwke Berkers and Yosha Wijngaarden, "A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
33 mins; August 30, 2025
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
74 hours 56 mins; August 29, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
36 mins; August 29, 2025
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 26, 2025
Peter K. Andersson, "The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial Splendour" (Oxford UP, 2025)
43 mins; August 25, 2025
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