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Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy ï»ż(U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
31 mins; August 21, 2025
Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)
65 hours 23 mins; August 20, 2025
Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; August 20, 2025
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
39 mins; August 17, 2025
Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team" (Ballantine Books, 2019)
50 mins; August 17, 2025
Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth
42 mins; August 16, 2025
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)
50 mins; August 15, 2025
Richard Mainwaring, "What the Ear Hears (And Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
70 hours 37 mins; August 14, 2025
Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
30 mins; August 14, 2025
Alisha Mughal, "It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow" (ECW Press, 2025)
44 mins; August 13, 2025
Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness" (Reaktion, 2010)
32 mins; August 13, 2025
Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
42 mins; August 12, 2025
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
62 hours 14 mins; August 09, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; August 08, 2025
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
39 mins; August 08, 2025
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
90 hours 35 mins; August 06, 2025
Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)
65 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2025
Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
56 mins; August 05, 2025
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
60 hours 9 mins; August 04, 2025
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
72 hours 5 mins; August 03, 2025
Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
48 mins; August 02, 2025
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 47 mins; August 01, 2025
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
105 hours 12 mins; July 27, 2025
Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
78 hours 36 mins; July 24, 2025
Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
38 mins; July 23, 2025
S1.E10. Turning the Page, Tuning the Dial
48 mins; July 23, 2025
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
43 mins; July 22, 2025
Lost Women of Disco
49 mins; July 22, 2025
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
63 hours 3 mins; July 20, 2025
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
36 mins; July 20, 2025
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
50 mins; July 19, 2025
S1.E9. Jubilee (1978)
49 mins; July 19, 2025
Megan Volpert, "Why Alanis Morissette Matters" (University of Texas Press, 2025)
56 mins; July 18, 2025
James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
24 mins; July 18, 2025
Veronica Litt, "Ugh! As If!: Clueless" (ECW Press, 2025)
49 mins; July 16, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
34 mins; July 16, 2025
S1.E8. Rock 'N' Roll Resurrection
55 mins; July 12, 2025
Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
45 mins; July 10, 2025
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
67 hours 51 mins; July 08, 2025
Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club Scene
59 mins; July 08, 2025
S1.E7. Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
45 mins; July 07, 2025
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
36 mins; July 07, 2025
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
74 hours 32 mins; July 06, 2025
S1.E6. Illustrating Punk
42 mins; July 06, 2025
Barry W. Enderwick, "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" (Harvard Common Press, 2024)
44 mins; July 05, 2025
S1.E5. A Queer Etymology of Punk
50 mins; July 05, 2025
S1.E4. Sounds of the City Collapsing
49 mins; July 04, 2025
S1.E3. How Punk Broke the Binary
68 hours 15 mins; July 03, 2025
S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
51 mins; July 02, 2025
S1.E1. Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
49 mins; July 01, 2025
Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)
62 hours 22 mins; June 29, 2025
Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 29, 2025
Johanna Drucker, "Affluvia: the Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture" (Bridge Art, 2025)
49 mins; June 28, 2025
Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
50 mins; June 25, 2025
Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 23 mins; June 24, 2025
American Gangster
24 mins; June 23, 2025
Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 21, 2025
Michael Broyles, "Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds" (Norton, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; June 21, 2025
Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
30 mins; June 20, 2025
Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
33 mins; June 19, 2025
Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
53 mins; June 17, 2025
Owen Flanagan, "What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; June 11, 2025
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
66 hours 21 mins; June 02, 2025
Joshua K. Wright, ï»ż"The NBA's Global Empire: How the League Became an International Powerhouse" (McFarland, 2025)
72 hours 17 mins; June 01, 2025
Ashlee Piper, "No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity" (Celadon Books, 2025)
42 mins; June 01, 2025
Dave Cook, "Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-'Em-Ups" (Bitmap Books, 2022)
19 mins; May 31, 2025
Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
43 mins; May 30, 2025
Laura Lee Flanagan, "Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!" (Process Media, 2025)
40 mins; May 30, 2025
Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
56 mins; May 29, 2025
Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
41 mins; May 23, 2025
Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
75 hours 9 mins; May 22, 2025
Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 22, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 17, 2025
Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
80 hours 3 mins; May 16, 2025
Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
54 mins; May 15, 2025
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
69 hours 41 mins; May 14, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 13, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
70 hours 58 mins; May 12, 2025
Brian M. Ingrassia, "Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America" (
39 mins; May 11, 2025
Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
33 mins; May 10, 2025
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
69 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; May 06, 2025
Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
41 mins; May 04, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
55 mins; May 03, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
64 hours 29 mins; May 01, 2025
Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
44 mins; April 30, 2025
Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
55 mins; April 29, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
51 mins; April 28, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; April 27, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; April 26, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
50 mins; April 25, 2025
James Cartlidge, "The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon" (CRC Press, 2025)
28 mins; April 24, 2025
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; April 23, 2025
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
48 mins; April 22, 2025
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; April 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
59 mins; April 20, 2025
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
69 hours 43 mins; April 19, 2025
Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
79 hours 29 mins; April 16, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
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