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Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Cata…

4/14/2026 • 63 min

This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with recent scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication, revealing how the skill of deep listening enriches our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us. This book braids personal narrative wit… Play episode

Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Pr…
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: …
Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Mi…
Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural …
Teaching English Pronunciation
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Cen…
Yiddish in Israel: A History
Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" …
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalizati…
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)
Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. An…
Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. An…
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)
Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (…
Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nin…
Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thought…
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Mo…
Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landsc…
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Pr…
Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monast…
Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and …
Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran…
Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with …
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 20…
Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SU…
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Lett…
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
Iris Idelson-Shein, "Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translat…
Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of S…
Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on …
Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Agains…
Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw"…
Arriving in a New Country
Cold Rush
Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching
Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Lite…
Intercultural Communication
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, …
Learning Ancient Languages: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel
Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets

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