New Books in Biography

1667 Episodes

1. “Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

   Published: 2/7/2023
2. Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)

   Published: 2/7/2023
3. Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)

   Published: 2/6/2023
4. Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)

   Published: 2/6/2023
5. Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones

   Published: 1/31/2023
6. Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)

   Published: 1/30/2023
7. George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)

   Published: 1/29/2023
8. Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)

   Published: 1/29/2023
9. Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)

   Published: 1/24/2023
10. Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)

    Published: 1/22/2023
11. Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 1/20/2023
12. The Thought of Ivan Illich

    Published: 1/20/2023
13. We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience

    Published: 1/18/2023
14. On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)

    Published: 1/15/2023
15. Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain

    Published: 1/15/2023
16. Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

    Published: 1/15/2023
17. Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)

    Published: 1/14/2023
18. Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution

    Published: 1/13/2023
19. Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)

    Published: 1/13/2023
20. Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)

    Published: 1/12/2023