New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill" (Norton, 2021)

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

   Published: 4/18/2022
3. 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
4. Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

   Published: 4/15/2022
5. Takeshi Morisato, "Tanabe Hajime and the Kyoto School: Self, World, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 4/14/2022
6. Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/8/2022
11. Matthew Wilson, "Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

    Published: 4/8/2022
12. Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/7/2022
13. Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

    Published: 4/7/2022
14. David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/6/2022
15. Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)

    Published: 4/6/2022
16. Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/4/2022
17. Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)

    Published: 4/1/2022
18. Richard K. Rein, "American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life" (Island Press, 2022)

    Published: 4/1/2022
19. Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/31/2022
20. Rickson Gracie and Peter Maguire, "Breathe: A Life in Flow" (Dey Street, 2021)

    Published: 3/24/2022