Podcast Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:50:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Podcast Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/ 32 32 Jazmine Ulloa on “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory” https://www.publicbooks.org/jazmine-ulloa-on-el-paso-five-families-and-one-hundred-years-of-blood-migration-race-and-memory/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=65188 “We tend to see El Paso as this very narrow space that divides Mexico and the United States, but it's this much richer region where ideas and goods and people are constantly flowing back and forth.”

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]]> Albert Camarillo on “Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality” https://www.publicbooks.org/albert-camarillo-on-compton-in-my-soul-a-life-in-pursuit-of-racial-equality/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60013 Albert Camarillo is the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He’s one of a small number of people who founded the academic field of Chicano/Latino history. He has also mentored so many of the historians who’ve written books that teach us much of what we know about the history of Latinos in […]

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]]> We Better Laugh About It: Álvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil’Adí https://www.publicbooks.org/we-better-laugh-about-it-alvaro-enrigue-and-maia-giladi/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59915 Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s signature question is: If you could spend a year anywhere, where, when, and how would you spend it? Álvaro Enrigue and critic Maia Gil’Adí […]

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]]> Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on “Puerto Rico: A National History” https://www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melendez-badillo-on-puerto-rico-a-national-history/ Wed, 28 May 2025 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59840 “Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.”

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]]> Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde https://www.publicbooks.org/who-owns-these-tools-vauhini-vara-and-aarthi-vadde/ Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:27 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59801 “The desire for that sort of purist kind of connection that one might call communion, is something that I'm interested in in all of my work.”

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]]> Justin Torres Reads “Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop” https://www.publicbooks.org/justin-torres-reads-youth-the-palisades-as-a-backdrop/ Wed, 14 May 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59732 In this special episode of Writing Latinos, with the writer Justin Torres, we tried something new. Torres reads a short vignette on air—“Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop” by the Afro-Puerto Rican writer, Jesús Colón—and then we discuss it together. We had so much to talk about! Historical references. Readings of imagery. His message about […]

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]]> “That In Between Time”: Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary https://www.publicbooks.org/that-in-between-time-fernanda-trias-and-heather-cleary/ Fri, 09 May 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59664 “I always feel that when I write, it’s like weaving senses.”

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]]> Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller https://www.publicbooks.org/planetary-boundaries-are-non-negotiable-kim-stanley-robinson-and-elizabeth-carolyn-miller/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59569 Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s signature question is: If you could spend a year anywhere, where, when, and how would you spend it? In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set […]

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]]> Nicolás Medina Mora on “América del Norte” https://www.publicbooks.org/nicolas-medina-mora-on-america-del-norte/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59529 “One of the main differences between Mexico and the United States is that in Mexico history is very much alive.”

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]]> Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper https://www.publicbooks.org/monstrous-dreaming-lauren-beukes-and-andrew-pepper/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59481 “I guess my actual process is probably despair and cortisol.”

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