Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Time of Witches with Madeline Martin (Hanover Square Press, 2026)
Episode 987
Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries--or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times best…
6 days, 14 hours ago
Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece with Todd Berliner (U Texas Press, 2026)
Episode 1011
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey an…
6 days, 14 hours ago
Autisms with Darian Leader (Penguin, 2026)
Episode 1013
Strikingly clear, humane and helpful, this is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand autism and the autistic spectrum. Drawing on many ye…
6 days, 14 hours ago
Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic with Irina Shevelenko (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 1019
Irina Shevelenko's Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic (Cornell University Press, 2024) discusses the late-19th and…
6 days, 14 hours ago
El Salvador Reborn with Mellissa Linton-Villafranco (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Episode 944
El Salvador Reborn: Abortion, Environment, and the Politics of Survival in a Postwar Nation ( examines the nation’s efforts to reshape its identity a…
1 week ago
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them with Jeffrey H. Cohen (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 975
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them (U Texas Press, 2025) is an approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, s…
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him with Amir Ahmadi Arian (HarperVia, 2020)
Episode 977
Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he i…
1 week ago
Moon of the Turning Leaves with Waubgeshig Rice (Penguin Random House Canada, 2023)
Episode 1000
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Waubgeshig Rice about his novel, Moon of the Turning Leaves (Penguin Random House Canada, 2023).…
1 week ago
There Are No Giant Crabs in this Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs with Jason Pargin (St. Martins, 2026)
Episode 1001
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Jason Pargin about his new novel, There Are No Giant Crabs in this Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs…
1 week ago
Partners in Need, Partners Indeed?
Episode 1005
What are Taiwan’s ties with the Baltic States? This episode puts Estonia in the spotlight and familiarizes listeners with key developments in Estonia…
1 week ago