New Books in Biography

1662 Episodes

1. Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)

   Published: 2/1/2025
2. Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/30/2025
3. About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

   Published: 1/30/2025
4. Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 1/29/2025
5. Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 1/28/2025
6. Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/27/2025
7. The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

   Published: 1/25/2025
8. The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

   Published: 1/23/2025
9. Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)

   Published: 1/18/2025
10. Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 1/18/2025
11. Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

    Published: 1/9/2025
12. Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 1/7/2025
13. Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 1/5/2025
14. Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

    Published: 1/3/2025
15. Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)

    Published: 1/2/2025
16. Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)

    Published: 1/1/2025
17. Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

    Published: 12/31/2024
18. Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
19. Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
20. Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

    Published: 12/29/2024