New Books in Biography

1667 Episodes

1. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 5/5/2022
2. Lea Ypi, "Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History" (Norton, 2021)

   Published: 5/5/2022
3. Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 5/4/2022
4. Michael Mackenzie, "Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance" (Peter Lang, 2019)

   Published: 5/3/2022
5. Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/29/2022
6. Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/29/2022
7. Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)

   Published: 4/28/2022
8. Amadou Hampâté Bâ, "Amkoullel: The Fula Boy" (Duke UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/26/2022
9. Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/20/2022
10. Mary Childs, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All" (Flatiron Books, 2021)

    Published: 4/20/2022
11. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill" (Norton, 2021)

    Published: 4/19/2022
12. Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde

    Published: 4/18/2022
13. George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)

    Published: 4/18/2022
14. Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 4/15/2022
15. Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)

    Published: 4/14/2022
16. Takeshi Morisato, "Tanabe Hajime and the Kyoto School: Self, World, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

    Published: 4/14/2022
17. Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)

    Published: 4/12/2022
18. James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 4/12/2022
19. Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/11/2022
20. Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

    Published: 4/8/2022