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Back to SearchAmy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 105
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her…
1 year, 9 months ago
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
Episode 260
What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of Poli…
1 year, 9 months ago
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
Episode 167
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature. Yet the very range o…
1 year, 9 months ago
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
Episode 487
At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in Massachusetts. Hearing the words of the new Massa…
1 year, 9 months ago
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Episode 141
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studie…
1 year, 9 months ago
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 484
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson sta…
1 year, 10 months ago
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 504
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri B…
1 year, 10 months ago
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Episode 337
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia…
1 year, 10 months ago
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Episode 264
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right…
1 year, 10 months ago
Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)
Episode 291
Today I talked to Daniel B. Hinshaw about his book Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga (St Vladimirs Seminary Pre…
1 year, 10 months ago