Podcast Episodes

Stuart Katz, "Still Here: A Story of Living with Suicidal Ideation" (Independent, 2026)

Still Here is a powerful and unflinching novel about chronic suicidal ideation—not as a moment of crisis, but as a daily presence.

Daniel is a husban…

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Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the markets for capital, labor, supplies, and distribution in ways that undermi…

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Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York

The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the personal stories of residents of two buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Ninety-seven Orc…

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Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)

In Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026), Dr. P…

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Angela I. Fritz, "AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future (Bloomsbury, 2026) explores how galleries, libraries, archive…

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K'wan, "House of the Rising Sun" (Akashic Books, 2026)

When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son Nicky from the skeletons coming out of the closets from …

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Sharon Israel, "Voice Lesson" (Post Traumatic Press, 2017)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Sharon Israel about her poetry collection, Voice Lesson (Post Traumatic Press).

Sharon Isra…

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Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)

Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Repara…

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Gordon Simmons, "Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 1969-2019" (PM Press, 2026)

Former chief steward and union organizer Gordon Simmons joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book on the history of labor struggles by public sect…

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Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East

Helen Haas speaks with political scientist Sean Lee about the changing relationship between majorities and minorities in the Middle East, the collaps…

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