Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMahesh Rao, "Half Light" (Penguin Random House India, 2025)
On Sep. 6, 2018, India’s Supreme Court ruled that Section 377, a law that criminalized consensual homosexual activity, was unconstitutional, reversin…
3 months, 1 week ago
Meg Merriet Wahlberg, "Chivalry in the Shadows" (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024)
Medieval Brittany, with all its contradictions and complexities, comes alive in Meg Wahlberg’s Chivalry in the Shadows (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024). …
3 months, 1 week ago
Christine Estima, "Letters to Kafka" (House of Anansi, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Christine Estima about her novel, Letters to Kafka (House of Anansi, 2025).
A sweeping, tragic …
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E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)
Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when t…
3 months, 1 week ago
An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
The YIVO Institute was pleased to present a special evening with acclaimed novelist Philip Roth. Roth read excerpts from his new novel, Nemesis (2010…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
10.1 "Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions:” Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)
Aaron Gwyn is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynn’s War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All God’s Chil…
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April Reynolds, "The Shape of Dreams" (Random House, 2026)
In The Shape of Dreams (Random House, 2026) April Reynolds introduces readers to a trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek j…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Joe Mungo Reed, "Terrestrial History" (Norton, 2025)
Joe Mungo Reed is the author of the novels Hammer and We Begin Our Ascent, one of the best novels about sport that I’ve ever read. He Teaches creativ…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
K.R. Wilson, "Stan on Guard" (Guernica Editions, 2026)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with K.R. Wilson about his novel, Stan on Guard (Guernica Editions, 2026).
Ishtanu (call him Stan) is…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Brit Griffin, "The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien" (Latitude 46, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brit Griffin about her novel, The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien (Latitude 46, 2025).
A gothic tale…
3 months, 3 weeks ago