The University of Chicago Press Podcast
Episodes
David Gordon White, “Sinister Yogis” (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
01 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A classic text, the Mahabharata, reports, “Yogis who are without restraints [and] endowed with the power of yoga are [so many] masters, who enter in...
Scott Brooks, “Black Men Can’t Shoot” (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With the NBA in the midst of a labor disagreement, players from the world’s premier basketball league are scattering in different directions to main...
Elizabeth Heineman, “Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
02 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
When I was in college in the 1980s, I liked to listen to Iggy Pop (aka James Newell Osterberg, Jr.). I was always mystified, however, by his song “F...
Gregory Koger, “Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate” (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
14 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months, we’ve been hearing a lot of talk about filibustering in the Senate, about how Senate Democrats acquired a filibuster-proof majorit...
Carrie Pitzulo, “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
06 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Playboy is having (another) moment. Since its fiftieth birthday in 2003, the brand’s relevance has risen after a period of decline. The Girls Next D...
Dagmar Schaefer, “The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
31 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In her elegant work of historical puppet theater The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China (University ...
Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
17 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
What should we study? The eighteenth-century luminary and poet Alexander Pope had this to say on the subject: “Know then thyself, presume not God to...
James Banner, Jr. and John Gillis, “Becoming Historians” (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
28 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
When I was young, I remember going to my high school library (not to study, mind you) and thinking “Who the hell reads all these books? And who writ...