New Books in Biography

1667 Episodes

1. Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

   Published: 3/17/2022
2. Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)

   Published: 3/17/2022
3. René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

   Published: 3/16/2022
4. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/15/2022
5. Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 3/14/2022
6. Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)

   Published: 3/11/2022
7. Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)

   Published: 3/11/2022
8. Randall Horton, "Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/10/2022
9. Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)

   Published: 3/9/2022
10. Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

    Published: 3/9/2022
11. Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/8/2022
12. Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)

    Published: 3/8/2022
13. Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)

    Published: 3/8/2022
14. Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)

    Published: 3/7/2022
15. Richard W. Etulain, "Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)

    Published: 3/7/2022
16. Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)

    Published: 3/7/2022
17. Susan Chase Edgecomb, "Clearing in the West: Navigating the Journey Through Loss, Grief and Healing" (2021)

    Published: 3/4/2022
18. James Lapine, "Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (FSG, 2021)

    Published: 3/4/2022
19. Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 3/2/2022
20. Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/1/2022