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Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
Episode 172
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 1 month ago
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
Episode 174
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 1 month ago
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 93
Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform …
1 year, 2 months ago
Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2025)
Episode 235
Chris Stowers, longtime photographer, credits a fellow journalist for the title of his latest memoir, Shoot, Ask...and Run (Earnshaw, 2025). The jour…
1 year, 2 months ago
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Episode 158
Though Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh remains well known today for his role in shaping the post-Napoleonic peace settlement in Europe, his half…
1 year, 2 months ago
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 222
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
Episode 299
We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (U Notre Dame Press, 2025) brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner …
1 year, 2 months ago
Kayla E.'s "Precious Rubbish" (Fantagraphics Books, 2025)
Episode 281
Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish (Fantagraphics, 2025), is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Erica Stern, "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story" (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025)
Episode 280
Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025) is a genre-bending expedition into childbirth. Seamlessly blending memoir, fiction, and…
1 year, 2 months ago
Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 117
A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner t…
1 year, 2 months ago