Biologist Caroline Turner joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of reading outside your own culture.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: World map produced in Amsterdam, 1689 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
J. J. Abrams / Jeffrey Liebfer / Damon Lindelof
Lost
Svetlana Alexievich
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Svetlana Alexievich
Voices from Chernobyl
Jokha Alharthi
Celestial Bodies
Poul Anderson
"Kyrie"
Hannah Arendt
Isaac Asimov
Short stories list
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Rick Bass
In My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days in Rwanda
Beaufort Wind Scale
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
Charlotte Beradt
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon
Robyn Creswell
"Bewildered Rhapsodies" (on translating the Qur'an)
Roald Dahl
Jana Damabrogio / Daniel Starza Smith
"Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking"
Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
Stuart Dybek
The Coast of Chicago
Julia Fine
The Upstairs House
Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet the Spy
Jonathan Gottschall
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Stephen Jay Gould
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Jean Hatzfeld
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Bong Joon Ho
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
Snowpiercer
Marion Holland
The Secret Horse
Scott Huler
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
Andrey Kurkov
Death and the Penguin
Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City
Robert McCloskey
Make Way for Ducklings
Dominic A. Pacyga
Chicago: A Biography
Grace Paley
Orhan Pamuk
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons
Jean Paul Richter
Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces
Christopher Robbins
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
Kristen Roupenian
"Cat Person"
Karen Russell
"Orange World"
Masaoka Shiki
"Haiku on Shit"
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
Amos Tutuola
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
P. G. Wodehouse
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