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Episode List:
Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster
The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor
Gregory Smithers on two-spirits in Indigenous American history
Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection
Meet the Tudor characters that populated Hans Holbein’s world
Leah Price on how books were social media all along
Adrian Shirk on the search for American utopia
How an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world
David George Haskell on the sense biology neglects most
