Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUlf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
Episode 276
Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy (Lund UP, 2024) examines important events in the life of the Swedish diplomat, but this is not a traditional biogra…
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Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 277
John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the W…
1 year, 2 months ago
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
Episode 632
In this captivating memoir, journalist Karen A. Frenkel unravels her parents' and sole surviving grandparent's secret, riveting stories of survival d…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 277
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next…
1 year, 2 months ago
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
Episode 169
Eufrasia Burlamacchi (Getty Publications, 2025) by Dr. Loretta Vandi is a timely exploration of the skilful illuminated manuscripts of Sister Eufrasi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Seán Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life and Times of Joseph Mcgarrity, 1874-1940" (Peter Lang, 2025)
Seán Creagh was born in County Monaghan in 1977. He attended Our Lady’s Secondary School in Castleblayney and later on Dundalk Institute of Technolog…
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir" (Oil on Water Press, 2025)
Episode 277
In the early 80s, New York City’s Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market …
1 year, 2 months ago
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
Episode 355
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones…
1 year, 2 months ago
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 81
Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Episode 286
Professional baseball has featured a bevy of superstars over the past century and a half, but only a few of them have impacted their sport and cities…
1 year, 2 months ago