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Back to SearchBrooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 1862
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard UP, 2023) is a rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measu…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
Episode 171
The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania.…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Episode 176
One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its format…
11 months ago
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 18
The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process…
11 months ago
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 238
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (FSG, 2023) is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon…
11 months ago
Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 1857
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Treena Orchard about her memoir, Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating …
11 months ago
Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 1856
H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician, enigma in the annals of US history. In Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and t…
11 months ago
Emma Heaney, "This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation" (Pluto Press UK, 2025)
Episode 1855
What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line…
11 months, 1 week ago
David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
Episode 1853
Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century A…
11 months, 1 week ago
Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 1854
Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the M…
11 months, 1 week ago