Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 362
In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In thi…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 months ago
Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
Episode 17
This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beau…
3 years, 4 months ago
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Episode 128
Virginia Woolf’s 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writer’s views on war, women, and the way the patriarchy at h…
3 years, 4 months ago
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 120
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New…
3 years, 5 months ago
George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
Episode 208
In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up…
3 years, 5 months ago
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
Episode 145
In her new book, Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented (Diversion Books, 2023), scholar and writer Oline Eaton examines the story of an era's biggest "st…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Episode 213
New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves.
And since the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City’s Greenwich Village h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 230
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life co…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Thought of Ivan Illich
Episode 12
Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Thin…
3 years, 5 months ago