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Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2023
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
50 mins; December 09, 2023
Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
42 mins; December 08, 2023
Emily R. AguilĂł-PĂ©rez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
49 mins; December 08, 2023
Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
25 mins; December 07, 2023
Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
48 mins; December 06, 2023
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
35 mins; December 06, 2023
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
42 mins; December 05, 2023
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 39 mins; December 03, 2023
H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)
54 mins; December 03, 2023
Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
42 mins; November 28, 2023
Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; November 27, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
38 mins; November 23, 2023
Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 20, 2023
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
43 mins; November 18, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
58 mins; November 17, 2023
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
82 hours 2 mins; November 15, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
81 hours 31 mins; November 11, 2023
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
41 mins; November 09, 2023
A Deep Dive into Olivia Rodrigo's "Guts"
64 hours 31 mins; November 09, 2023
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
51 mins; November 09, 2023
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
37 mins; November 09, 2023
What Reality TV Says About Us
44 mins; November 08, 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; November 08, 2023
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2023
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
77 hours 31 mins; November 07, 2023
Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)
62 hours 57 mins; November 06, 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)
62 hours 20 mins; November 06, 2023
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
70 hours 51 mins; November 05, 2023
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
58 mins; November 04, 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
52 mins; November 02, 2023
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
75 hours 5 mins; October 31, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
55 mins; October 31, 2023
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40 mins; October 31, 2023
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
53 mins; October 29, 2023
Jason Lamb, "NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion, an Oral History" (PM Press, 2024)
61 hours 53 mins; October 28, 2023
Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
71 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2023
Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)
61 hours 52 mins; October 26, 2023
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
46 mins; October 24, 2023
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
55 mins; October 21, 2023
Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
60 hours 48 mins; October 21, 2023
SĂ©bastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
49 mins; October 19, 2023
Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
48 mins; October 13, 2023
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
72 hours 39 mins; October 12, 2023
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
59 mins; October 10, 2023
Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
65 hours 59 mins; October 10, 2023
Johannes C. P. Schmid, "Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
46 mins; October 09, 2023
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
56 mins; October 08, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scĂšne, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
52 mins; October 07, 2023
Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
64 hours 52 mins; October 07, 2023
Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)
50 mins; October 05, 2023
Sheldon Birnie, "Missing Like Teeth: An Oral History of Winnipeg Underground Rock, 1900-2001" (‎Eternal Cavalier Press, 2015)
59 mins; October 04, 2023
Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
59 mins; October 03, 2023
Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
47 mins; October 02, 2023
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
47 mins; September 30, 2023
Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 34 mins; September 26, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
48 mins; September 23, 2023
Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)
100 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2023
Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
24 mins; September 21, 2023
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)
54 mins; September 18, 2023
Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
66 hours 26 mins; September 17, 2023
Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)
48 mins; September 15, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
77 hours 6 mins; September 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
71 hours 12 mins; September 12, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
70 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023
Muងsin Jāsim Mƫsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 10, 2023
Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
71 hours 23 mins; September 10, 2023
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
67 hours 36 mins; September 08, 2023
Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)
60 hours 33 mins; September 05, 2023
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
55 mins; September 02, 2023
John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)
66 hours 41 mins; August 30, 2023
Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; August 28, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
110 hours 37 mins; August 27, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 25, 2023
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (HĂŒlsbusch, 2023)
30 mins; August 23, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023
Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)
62 hours 30 mins; August 20, 2023
Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
64 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2023
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
86 hours 43 mins; August 17, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2023
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
20 mins; August 15, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
72 hours 32 mins; August 15, 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
18 mins; August 14, 2023
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; August 13, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
51 mins; August 09, 2023
Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
44 mins; August 09, 2023
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 08, 2023
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)
49 mins; August 04, 2023
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
52 mins; August 04, 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
15 mins; August 03, 2023
The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
49 mins; August 01, 2023
Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)
43 mins; July 31, 2023
Tara Isabella Burton, "Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
33 mins; July 27, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
55 mins; July 26, 2023
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023
Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)
45 mins; July 23, 2023
Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
40 mins; July 19, 2023
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
60 hours 19 mins; July 19, 2023
Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
53 mins; July 18, 2023
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