Higher Animals

About Higher Animals

With Pushkin+ audiobooks, you'll get access to a new Pushkin+ audiobook every other month. From November 1 to December 31 get the Pulitzer Prize winner The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. Pushkin+ subscribers also get access to ad-free listening, exclusive bonus episodes of podcasts like Cautionary Tales, full binges to new shows like Gone: The Disappearances, and more. Sign up now on The Netanyahus show page or at pushkin.com/plus (http://pushkin.com/plus). Blending history and fiction, The Netanyahus is a hilarious fictionalized retelling of Harold Bloom’s encounter with the Netanyahu family at an upstate New York college in the late 1950s, by an author The Washington Post has called “maybe America’s greatest living writer.” Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus audiobook is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

Publisher

Pushkin Industries

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Mar 2025

Latest episode

2 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Nov 2026

   2 - Chapter 1

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2. 

   30 Apr 2026

   3 - Chapter One: Stay Out

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3. 

   5 Jan 2026

   2 - Author's Note

   Author Florence Williams shares a personal note regarding her book, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey, offering listeners insight into her motivations.

4. 

   5 Jan 2026

   3 - Introduction

   Florence Williams introduces her personal journey through heartbreak, offering listeners a preview of the experiences and insights she will explore in the podcast; this is not an interview.

5. 

   3 Nov 2025

   1 - Introduction

   Actor and director Lake Bell introduces Inside Voice, a humorous exploration into the under-appreciated trait of our voice.

6. 

   1 Sept 2025

   2 - Prologue

   Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam interview legendary musician Paul Simon about his career, songwriting, and career highlights, including a live performance.

7. 

   1 May 2025

   2 - Foreword

   From Steve Martin & New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, Pushkin Industries presents So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin. In So Many Steves, Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life. This engrossing audio-biography was born from a series of conversations recorded over many afternoons at Steve’s home with his friend and neighbor, Adam Gopnik. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the full audiobook: apple.co/pushkin (http://apple.co/pushkin) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

8. 

   4 Mar 2025

   2 - Introduction

   From New Yorker journalist Michael Specter, Pushkin Industries presents Higher Animals. Higher Animals explores how MRNA vaccines have transformed the scientific landscape and helped spark a biotechnology revolution. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the full audiobook: apple.co/pushkin (http://apple.co/pushkin) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

9. 

   4 Mar 2025

   1 - Opening Credits

   From New Yorker journalist Michael Specter, Pushkin Industries presents Higher Animals. Higher Animals explores how MRNA vaccines have transformed the scientific landscape and helped spark a biotechnology revolution. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the full audiobook: apple.co/pushkin (http://apple.co/pushkin) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

812,267

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

77

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