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Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
45 mins; September 16, 2022
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
53 mins; September 16, 2022
David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)
44 mins; September 15, 2022
David Crow, "The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story" (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019)
82 hours 38 mins; September 15, 2022
Joanne Watson, "Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
92 hours 14 mins; September 12, 2022
R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)
88 hours 19 mins; September 12, 2022
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
91 hours 6 mins; September 12, 2022
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
48 mins; September 06, 2022
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
43 mins; September 06, 2022
Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)
44 mins; September 02, 2022
Will Birch, "Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe" (Da Capo Press, 2019)
69 hours 1 min; August 31, 2022
Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)
90 hours 3 mins; August 31, 2022
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
58 mins; August 30, 2022
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
64 hours 4 mins; August 30, 2022
Robert Edmund Cotter, "John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism" (Routledge, 2022)
32 mins; August 29, 2022
Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
56 mins; August 29, 2022
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
91 hours 33 mins; August 24, 2022
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
65 hours 56 mins; August 23, 2022
Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 22, 2022
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
44 mins; August 19, 2022
Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
36 mins; August 18, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
51 mins; August 17, 2022
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
44 mins; August 17, 2022
Jeremy Black, "The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
30 mins; August 15, 2022
John Morton, "Celebrate Winter: An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing" (Morton Trails, 2020)
44 mins; August 15, 2022
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
59 mins; August 15, 2022
On Frederick Douglass
29 mins; August 15, 2022
Hans G. Myers, "The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War" (Casemate, 2022)
47 mins; August 12, 2022
Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
68 hours 45 mins; August 11, 2022
Marion (Mugs) McConnell, "Letters from the Yoga Masters" (North Atlantic Books, 2016)
49 mins; August 11, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
56 mins; August 10, 2022
Michael Elliott, "Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
52 mins; August 10, 2022
Alice M. Kelly, "Decolonising the Conrad Canon" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
49 mins; August 08, 2022
Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
60 hours 21 mins; August 05, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
42 mins; August 04, 2022
Craig L. Symonds, "Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay" (Oxford UP, 2022)
50 mins; August 04, 2022
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
58 mins; August 04, 2022
Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
57 mins; August 01, 2022
Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
52 mins; August 01, 2022
Richard Middleton, "Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World" (Yale UP, 2022)
71 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2022
Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)
70 hours 17 mins; July 27, 2022
Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)
63 hours 22 mins; July 27, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
84 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2022
Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
49 mins; July 27, 2022
F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
67 hours 52 mins; July 26, 2022
Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
54 mins; July 22, 2022
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
75 hours 1 min; July 22, 2022
Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)
50 mins; July 19, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
58 mins; July 19, 2022
Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
68 hours 46 mins; July 18, 2022
Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
55 mins; July 14, 2022
Bookends: A Conversation about Grad School, Loss, and Books
57 mins; July 14, 2022
Antonio Rigopoulos, "The Hagiographer and the Avatar: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi" (SUNY Press, 2021)
52 mins; July 14, 2022
Dean Krouk, "The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
58 mins; July 13, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
87 hours 30 mins; July 13, 2022
H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
34 mins; July 08, 2022
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
41 mins; July 08, 2022
Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
92 hours 48 mins; July 06, 2022
The Future of Erdogan: A Discussion with Dimitar Bechev
42 mins; July 05, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
55 mins; July 04, 2022
Simon Atkinson, "Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
62 hours 37 mins; June 29, 2022
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
79 hours 56 mins; June 28, 2022
D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
48 mins; June 24, 2022
Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
71 hours 1 min; June 23, 2022
Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
98 hours 35 mins; June 23, 2022
Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 23, 2022
William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 22, 2022
John Luther Adams, "Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska" (FSG, 2020)
58 mins; June 22, 2022
Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
48 mins; June 22, 2022
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
39 mins; June 21, 2022
Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
65 hours 16 mins; June 21, 2022
Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
46 mins; June 20, 2022
Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
68 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; June 20, 2022
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
58 mins; June 17, 2022
James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.), "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
48 mins; June 15, 2022
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
73 hours 1 min; June 15, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2022
Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
63 hours 27 mins; June 14, 2022
Geoffrey Kurtz, "Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2014)
68 hours 1 min; June 10, 2022
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
57 mins; June 08, 2022
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
90 hours 58 mins; June 08, 2022
Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)
68 hours 22 mins; June 02, 2022
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 24 mins; June 02, 2022
Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
56 mins; June 01, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
65 hours 9 mins; June 01, 2022
Ray Argyle, "Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake" (McFarland, 2021)
98 hours 30 mins; May 31, 2022
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
70 hours 49 mins; May 30, 2022
Carlos Acevedo, "The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison" (Hamilcar, 2022)
48 mins; May 29, 2022
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022) Part 2 of 2
57 mins; May 27, 2022
John Markoff, "Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand" (Penguin, 2022)
51 mins; May 24, 2022
Elizabeth Boyle, "Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past" (Sandycove, 2022)
55 mins; May 23, 2022
Peter McFarlane with Doreen Manuel, "Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement" (Between the Lines, 2020)
79 hours 25 mins; May 21, 2022
Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
84 hours 32 mins; May 20, 2022
Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)
62 hours 8 mins; May 20, 2022
Charters Wynn, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936" (Brill, 2022)
62 hours 4 mins; May 18, 2022
Alvin Eng, "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (Fordham UP, 2022)
45 mins; May 16, 2022
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