Podcast Episodes

Health psychologist explains how to change your mindset and embrace winter in new book

Why do some people view winter as a magical season when others see it as something to dread?

The secret is in the mindset, according to health psycho…

1 year, 7 months ago

Novelist Geraldine Brooks reflects on the abrupt loss of her husband in her new memoir

Grief didn’t come easily to novelist Geraldine Brooks.

When her husband, journalist and author Tony Horowitz, died of a cardiac event on a Washington…

1 year, 8 months ago

Lindsay Chervinsky’s new book ‘Making the Presidency’ teaches us about the past and present

Lindsay Chervinsky knew other historians had written extensively about America’s second president, John Adams.

But none of those books were written b…

1 year, 8 months ago

Valentine’s Day special: Unpacking all kinds of love in literature

It’s Valentine’s Day! To mark the occasion, Big Books and Bold Ideas is dipping into the archives to focus on love — and not just romantic love. This…

1 year, 8 months ago

Fabienne Josaphat’s ‘Kingdom of No Tomorrow’ explores gender equality in the Black Panthers

At what cost revolution?

In Fabienne Josaphat’s new novel, “Kingdom of No Tomorrow,” 20-year-old Nettie Boileau trades the turmoil of Duvalier’s Hait…

1 year, 8 months ago

In her new memoir, Sarah Hoover offers an unflinching take on the first year of motherhood

Sarah Hoover knows her new memoir, “The Motherload,” isn’t flattering. She’s made peace with the fact that “people will judge me on the internet,” as…

1 year, 9 months ago

Histories collide at the dawning of a new age in ’The New Internationals’

David Wright Faladé didn’t learn the truth about his lineage until he was 16. That’s when his mother told him that his biological father was a West A…

1 year, 9 months ago

On the brink of the inauguration, historians reflect on America's trajectory

President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated for a second term on Monday, Jan. 20.

So this week, Big Books and Bold Ideas asked two historians wh…

1 year, 9 months ago

Naturalist Robin Wall Kimmerer on her new book, ‘The Serviceberry’

Robin Wall Kimmerer embodies an abundance mindset.

The naturalist and author sees the world through the lens of her Anishinaabe ancestors, where inte…

1 year, 9 months ago

Why some college students aren’t reading books

In Nov. 2024, The Atlantic’s cover article rang alarm bells among readers, writers, college professors and parents alike. The article was headlined: …

1 year, 9 months ago