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2021 in podcasts: a dozen highlights
2021 was our first full year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights. Click on the title to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
- Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights
- Oliver Craske, author of Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
- Julia Lovell, translator of Monkey King: Journey to the West
- Te-Ping Chen, author of Land of Big Numbers
- Larry Feign, author of The Flower Boat Girl
- Tonio Andrade, author of The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
- Pornsak Pichetshote, author of The Good Asian
- Jason M Kelly, author of Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent
- Gershom Gorenberg, author of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- Thane Gustafson, author of Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
- James Kelly Morningstar, author of War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942–1944
- Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, contributor to Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond