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Back to SearchNoel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 120
John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages…
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Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
Episode 238
In 2022, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. But she wasn’t the first actress of Asian origin to …
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Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
Episode 642
Rav Kook’s Vision: Halakhah, Secular Knowledge, and the Renewal of Judaism.
Those of us who know something about Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook’s l…
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Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
Covering her life and sixty-year career from Sonny & Cher to show-stopping solo performer, award-winning actress, fashion icon, and beyond, this is a…
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Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 27
Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andraé Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction. His compositions--"The Blood Will Never Lose Its Powe…
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Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmina…
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Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
Episode 638
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man …
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John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Episode 282
From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) is powerful memoir of redemption from the son…
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Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
Episode 177
More than any one institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rates a…
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Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
Episode 173
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
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