Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGreat Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger with A. Wess Mitchell (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 614
Great Power Diplomacy. The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger (Princeton UP, 2025) is a captivating history of diplomacy—and an ur…
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Life's Chemical Secret: The Origin of Purpose and Mind with Addy Pross (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 611
How the ground-breaking discovery of a new material form in chemistry—matter in a dynamic kinetic state—is helping to explain life’s unique character…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir with Joel Dinerstein (SUNY Press, 2026)
Episode 615
Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish famil…
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Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?
Episode 637
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Lorenzo Feltrin about his recent book Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within (Verso, 2026). They …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture with Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Episode 604
Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T.…
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Librarians as Researchers: Developing Our Scholarly Identities with Paul C. Campbell and Sarah Nagle
Episode 601
Librarians as Researchers: Developing Our Scholarly Identity (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Paul C. Campbell and Sarah Nagle is designed to empower lib…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself with Jill Rosenberg (Black Lawrence Press, 2026)
Episode 597
Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself (Black Lawrence Press, 2026) is a collection of ten playfully strange and unsettling stories, som…
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The Fall-Down Effect with Liz Johnston (Book*hug, 2026)
Episode 598
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Liz Johnston about her eagerly anticipated debut novel, The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug, 2026). …
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Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931 with Edward Baring (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 603
Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education.
For the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Night Breaks in the Garret: Poems and Peregrinations with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (Finishing Line Press, 2026)
Episode 599
In Night Breaks in the Garret: Poems and Peregrinations (Finishing Line Press, 2026), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub provides a meditation not so much on the s…
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