Media

MEDIA

2023 "Hope in the Dark: History and Ghost Stories," Perspectives on History 61.3 (March 2023)

2023 Lucy Barnhouse, "Phantom Encounters: Building a Course Around Ghosts," Perspectives on History 61.3 (March 2023) on structuring an undergraduate course on The Penguin Book of the Undead.

2023 "Dragons!" A conversation with Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium & Friends (02/09/23)

2021 "Why Dragons Dominated the Landscape of Medieval Monsters," Smithsonian Magazine (10/27/21)

2021 "The Historian of Hell and the Undead Takes on Dragons," Interview with Atlas Obscura (10/21/21)

2021 "Night is the Dead's Domain: The Habitats of Restless Souls in Medieval Thought," Spooky Evenings Speaker Series, Nebraska Wesleyan University (10/09/21)

2020 Reflections on The Penguin Book of Hell recorded for the Sant Jordi in New York Book Festival (05/02/20)

2019 Ed Simon, "Dismal Shores of Achaeron: Touring Hell with Penguin Classics," Featured Review of The Penguin Book of Hell in Los Angeles Review of Books (08/09/19)

2019 NPR Purdue (WBAA) Review of
The Penguin Book of Hell (05/17/19)

2019 Interview on BBC Sunday Programme (03/24/19) on Hell and Brexit (begins at 13:52)

2019 Vinson Cunningham, "How the Idea of Hell Shaped the Way We Think,"
Featured Review of The Penguin Book of Hell
in The New Yorker (01/21/19)

2018 Steven Greenblatt, "Damn It All," Featured Review of The Penguin Book of Hell
in The New York Review of Books (12/20/18)

2018 The Wall Street Journal Life & Arts Essay
"Do We Still Need to Believe in Hell?" (09/14/18)"

2016 Colorado Public Radio Hallowe'en Feature Interview (audio)

2016 Colorado Public Radio Hallowe'en Feature Interview (slideshow)

2016 The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles) Interview

What Does Hell Look Like? Illustrations Inspired by The Penguin Book of Hell (from Smithsonian Magazine, October 2018)