Each episode is a short conversation – 15 minutes max – with a different scholar or thinker.
Whether we're talking about women dancers in Hindi cinema, the politics of “dirty bodies” in Nigeria or why binge-watching TV could be a good thing, we like to talk with people who can communicate big, complex ideas accessibly without over-simplifying.
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Each episode is a short conversation – 15 minutes max – with a different scholar or thinker.
Whether we're talking about women dancers in Hindi cinema, the politics of “dirty bodies” in Nigeria or why binge-watching TV could be a good thing, we like to talk with people who can communicate big, complex ideas accessibly without over-simplifying.
We may think of reading and writing as opposite activities, but there’s a long history of people reading with blank books by their side so they could write out their favorite passages as they went. Deidre Lynch is interested in what these homemade books can tell us about the people who filled them up. Like someone’s Pinterest board or Tumblr blog today, these curated collections of words told a story about a person’s individual identity. Beyond that, they could also tell the story of relationships within a social group, with many people contributing extracts to a single book.
How to Read
Each episode is a short conversation – 15 minutes max – with a different scholar or thinker.
Whether we're talking about women dancers in Hindi cinema, the politics of “dirty bodies” in Nigeria or why binge-watching TV could be a good thing, we like to talk with people who can communicate big, complex ideas accessibly without over-simplifying.
