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Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)
34 mins; June 12, 2025
Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
57 mins; June 10, 2025
Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
87 hours 29 mins; June 06, 2025
Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
35 mins; June 06, 2025
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; June 05, 2025
Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
102 hours 59 mins; June 05, 2025
Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
51 mins; June 04, 2025
Bonnie Yochelson, "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" (Fordham UP, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; June 03, 2025
Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
57 mins; June 01, 2025
Stephen P. Huyler, "Transformed by India: A Life" (iIppa Rann, 2025)
57 mins; May 29, 2025
Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
36 mins; May 27, 2025
Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)
164 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2025
Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)
73 hours 7 mins; May 22, 2025
Maureen Stanton, "The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir" (Columbus State UP, 2025)
23 mins; May 21, 2025
Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
41 mins; May 20, 2025
Andrew Holter, ed., "Going Around: Selected Journalism / Murray Kempton" (Seven Stories Press, 2025)
62 hours 49 mins; May 19, 2025
Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
44 mins; May 18, 2025
Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
46 mins; May 17, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
57 mins; May 16, 2025
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
49 mins; May 15, 2025
Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
54 mins; May 14, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 13, 2025
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
39 mins; May 12, 2025
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
53 mins; May 07, 2025
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
56 mins; May 05, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
51 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
59 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
47 mins; May 01, 2025
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
69 hours 42 mins; April 24, 2025
Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2025)
53 mins; April 24, 2025
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
72 hours 1 min; April 23, 2025
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
81 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2025
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 20, 2025
Kayla E.'s "Precious Rubbish" (Fantagraphics Books, 2025)
60 hours 24 mins; April 17, 2025
Erica Stern, "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story" (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025)
56 mins; April 17, 2025
Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 15, 2025
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
70 hours 57 mins; April 14, 2025
Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
61 hours 31 mins; April 10, 2025
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
59 mins; April 09, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
46 mins; April 08, 2025
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
47 mins; April 07, 2025
SeĂĄn Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life and Times of Joseph Mcgarrity, 1874-1940" (Peter Lang, 2025)
40 mins; April 06, 2025
Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir" (Oil on Water Press, 2025)
58 mins; April 05, 2025
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
54 mins; April 04, 2025
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; April 02, 2025
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
67 hours 24 mins; April 01, 2025
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
51 mins; March 29, 2025
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 28, 2025
Donna Besel, "The Unravelling: Incest and the Destruction of a Family" (U Regina Press, 2021)
28 mins; March 27, 2025
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
31 mins; March 27, 2025
Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 25, 2025
Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)
55 mins; March 22, 2025
Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
43 mins; March 20, 2025
Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Chñtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 18, 2025
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
64 hours 48 mins; March 15, 2025
Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
49 mins; March 14, 2025
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
58 mins; March 13, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
47 mins; March 07, 2025
Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 05, 2025
Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)
45 mins; March 05, 2025
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 04, 2025
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; March 04, 2025
Paul Lisicky, "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell" (HarperOne, 2025)
22 mins; March 04, 2025
John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; March 04, 2025
Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 32 mins; March 03, 2025
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
78 hours 38 mins; February 25, 2025
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
68 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2025
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025
Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
29 mins; February 20, 2025
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; February 19, 2025
Janet Sherfund, "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me" (Worth, 2024)
48 mins; February 19, 2025
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
55 mins; February 19, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
84 hours 52 mins; February 17, 2025
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
38 mins; February 17, 2025
Caroline Topperman, "Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search across History for Belonging" (HCI, 2024)
32 mins; February 16, 2025
Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
76 hours 18 mins; February 15, 2025
Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024)
56 mins; February 14, 2025
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
72 hours 17 mins; February 13, 2025
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
77 hours 58 mins; February 11, 2025
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
57 mins; February 11, 2025
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; February 08, 2025
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
67 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2025
Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 06, 2025
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
36 mins; February 04, 2025
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 04, 2025
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
79 hours 59 mins; February 03, 2025
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
38 mins; February 03, 2025
Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)
56 mins; February 02, 2025
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
33 mins; February 01, 2025
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
38 mins; January 30, 2025
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
66 hours 55 mins; January 30, 2025
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 29, 2025
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 52 mins; January 28, 2025
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 27, 2025
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
30 mins; January 25, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
69 hours 25 mins; January 23, 2025
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
60 hours 4 mins; January 18, 2025
Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
35 mins; January 18, 2025
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