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Back to SearchDawn Macdonald, "Northerny" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
Episode 592
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Dawn MacDonald about her Griffin Prize winning collection, Northerny (University of Alberta Pres…
6 months, 1 week ago
Radha Lin Chaddah, "And the Ancestors Sing" (Rising Action, 2026)
Episode 591
Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post Cultural Revolution China: Lulu, who’s forced to become a prostitute in Shanghai to save her mo…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Lauren J.A. Bear, "Aphrodite in Pieces" (Ace, 2026)
Episode 90
Aphrodite in Pieces gathers diverse myths featuring the goddess and unites them to create a comprehensive portrait. Beginning with her innocent days …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 1828
In their anthology, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press, 2026), Sasha Se…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sayantani DasGupta, "Theft of the Ruby Lotus" (Scholastic Press, 2026)
Episode 1827
Sayantani DasGupta's latest middle grades novel, Theft of the Ruby Lotus (Scholastic, 2026) is an adventure heist. Ria Bailey finds herself in quite …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
New Book Releases 2026 on Japan, Taiwan
Episode 1826
This episode of the Books on Asia podcast introduces new fiction and non-fiction on Japan to be published this year, 2026, along with two upcoming bo…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jinwoo Park, "Oxford Soju Club" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
Episode 1825
Doha, a North Korean spymaster, is found stabbed in an alley in Oxford. Doha tells his mentee–another North Korean spy named Yohan—to go to the Oxfor…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Lisa Lee, "American Han" (Algonquin Books, 2026)
Episode 1823
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents d…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Linda Hamilton, "The Fourth Wife" (Kensington, 2026)
Episode 1824
There must be a shift in the Zeitgeist of the publishing world, because after a long drought in Gothic novels, this is the second one I’ve encountere…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jason Reynolds, "Soundtrack: A Novel" (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1822
The print adaptation of Jason Reynolds acclaimed, award-winning audiobook Soundtrack (Crown Books, 2026)—a stirring story of music, friendship, and f…
6 months, 3 weeks ago