Decoder Ring
Slate Podcasts
Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.Get more of Decoder Ring with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of Decoder Ring and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Decoder Ring show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/decoderplus for access wherever you listen.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Decoder Ring podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Katy Milkman
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Paved Paradise
How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Taste of Brown Sugar
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Marae Miller-Young
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
King of Comedy
The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
Shawn Levy
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical
Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Making the American mouth
Alyssa Picard
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America
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Shelly McKenzie
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mauve
How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Simon Garfield
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hollywood and the Holocaust
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Henry Gonshak
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dinner with King Tut
Sam Kean
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tupperware Unsealed
Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers
Bob Kealing
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
Samantha Cole
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rope
Tim Queeney
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
Greg Eghgian
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bollywood Sounds
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
Jayson Beaster-Jones
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Movie Musical!
Jeanine Basinger
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Jane Fonda’s War
A Political Biography Of An Antiwar Icon
Mary Hirschberger
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tell Me What You Want
Justin Lay Miller
