Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter
Episode 1940
Marc Chagall is widely recognized as the preeminent Jewish artist of the 20th century, but little is known of his work to preserve Jewish culture. I…
7 months, 1 week ago
Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)
Episode 1939
In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911–2007), Kalpana Karunakaran a…
7 months, 1 week ago
H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1938
James Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved seaml…
7 months, 1 week ago
Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)
Episode 1937
On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been decorated in…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Terese Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)
Episode 1936
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the col…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
Episode 1935
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound im…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
Episode 1933
As news reporters, we are in the story-telling business, the eye witnesses to history, writing, it's said, ‘the first draft of history'.
The fall …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Charles Delgadillo and James Stacey, eds., "Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Episode 1934
For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equalit…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A
Episode 1932
February 24—Following a screening of the documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry during the weekend of Feb. 20–22, 2026, filmmaker Laura …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"
Episode 1931
Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder…
7 months, 3 weeks ago