New Books in Biography

1663 Episodes

1. Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/4/2024
2. Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 8/4/2024
3. Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)

   Published: 8/3/2024
4. Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)

   Published: 8/3/2024
5. Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

   Published: 8/1/2024
6. Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/30/2024
7. Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/30/2024
8. Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)

   Published: 7/30/2024
9. Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 7/28/2024
10. Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/28/2024
11. Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

    Published: 7/27/2024
12. Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)

    Published: 7/27/2024
13. Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024)

    Published: 7/26/2024
14. Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 7/25/2024
15. David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)

    Published: 7/25/2024
16. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 7/25/2024
17. Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)

    Published: 7/25/2024
18. Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)

    Published: 7/23/2024
19. Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/21/2024
20. Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 7/20/2024