Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStephen 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Seán Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life and Times of Joseph Mcgarrity, 1874-1940" (Peter Lang, 2025)
Episode 1702
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…
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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 months ago
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Episode 354
Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. He was perhaps best known for his work on poetry a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Episode 624
What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holoca…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
Episode 202
Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone's name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was …
1 year, 7 months ago