Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLorna Graham, "Where You Once Belonged: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2025)
A writer at Dateline NBC tries her hand at a different kind of mystery, perfect for fans of Chandler Baker’s Whisper Network, where a cynical TV news…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
In this episode, New Books Network host Nina Bo Wagner talks to Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling about his recently published book The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
S1.E6. Illustrating Punk
Season 1 Episode 6
In the sixth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell talks with John Holmstrom a comic illustrator and founder of Punk magazine. In the early 1…
11 months ago
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, draw…
11 months ago
Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Felix Cowan about his new book, The Kopeck Press Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918 (Univers…
11 months, 1 week ago
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine and OR Books Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
The Nation Magazine, known for its long and storied history as a publisher of in-depth political and cultural analysis, has launched a new book impri…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi" (Hurst, 2020)
Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left t…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Telegraph Takeover: Power, Profit & the Press
In the season finale of Ctrl Alt Deceit, Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones dig into the tangled web of media ownership, foreign influence and th…
1 year ago
Thomas Mutch, "The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia's Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine's Iron Generation" (Biteback, 2025)
In early 2022, as Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border, Tom Mutch, a freelance war reporter, took a trip to Mariupol to take the temperature of …
1 year ago
Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
In Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Alex Davies tells the enlightening and significant story of the effort to …
1 year ago