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Back to SearchZaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Episode 337
A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionis…
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Episode 1969
Caroline Bicks became the first scholar granted extended access by Stephen King to his private archives, a treasure trove of manuscripts that documen…
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Adam Henig, "Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 1968
When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was in a yard at the State Prison of Southern Michigan where he w…
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Twelve Lives: Creating Literary Community with Raymond Williams, PhD
Episode 1967
From the moment I began working with the New Books Network, my vision was bigger than author interviews. I envisioned my platform one where people co…
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
Episode 1966
After escaping the Vilna Ghetto and surviving winter in the forest among partisan fighters, Avrom Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow in 1944. The reno…
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Yanara Friedland, "Thanatographies" (U Alabama Press, 2026)
Episode 1964
Yanara Friedland is a writer, translator, and educator born in Berlin. She is the author of Uncountry: A Mythology (2016) winner of the Noemi Press F…
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Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)
Episode 1965
Nicolas Levi is a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous book…
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Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1963
Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rati…
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Kate Crane, "Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026)
Episode 1962
Kate Crane's new memoir, Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026) starts when Crane was in eight…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 1961
This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago