New Books in Biography

1665 Episodes

1. Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)

   Published: 12/3/2023
2. On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

   Published: 11/30/2023
3. Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

   Published: 11/29/2023
4. Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/28/2023
5. Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)

   Published: 11/27/2023
6. E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 11/26/2023
7. Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)

   Published: 11/25/2023
8. Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)

   Published: 11/23/2023
9. Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 11/21/2023
10. Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/21/2023
11. Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 11/20/2023
12. Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/18/2023
13. Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)

    Published: 11/17/2023
14. Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/16/2023
15. Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/15/2023
16. Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman

    Published: 11/14/2023
17. Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)

    Published: 11/11/2023
18. Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)

    Published: 11/10/2023
19. Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)

    Published: 11/9/2023
20. Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives

    Published: 11/8/2023