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Christopher Lovins, "King ChƏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
72 hours 34 mins; August 27, 2024
Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
55 mins; August 26, 2024
Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
56 mins; August 24, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
46 mins; August 22, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2024
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
64 hours 11 mins; August 15, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
67 hours 35 mins; August 15, 2024
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
55 mins; August 14, 2024
Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 12, 2024
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
49 mins; August 09, 2024
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
47 mins; August 08, 2024
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
61 hours 8 mins; August 07, 2024
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
48 mins; August 07, 2024
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 2 mins; August 06, 2024
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
64 hours 29 mins; August 06, 2024
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
60 hours 3 mins; August 06, 2024
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 16 mins; August 04, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
86 hours 14 mins; August 04, 2024
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
63 hours 13 mins; August 03, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
55 mins; August 01, 2024
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; July 30, 2024
Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
50 mins; July 30, 2024
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
35 mins; July 30, 2024
Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
95 hours 18 mins; July 28, 2024
Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
32 mins; July 28, 2024
Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
56 mins; July 27, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
52 mins; July 27, 2024
Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024)
52 mins; July 26, 2024
Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)
46 mins; July 25, 2024
David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
73 hours 16 mins; July 25, 2024
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; July 25, 2024
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 37 mins; July 25, 2024
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; July 23, 2024
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kƍran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
54 mins; July 21, 2024
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
66 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
50 mins; July 19, 2024
Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)
76 hours 2 mins; July 18, 2024
Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 51 mins; July 18, 2024
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 6 mins; July 16, 2024
Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
57 mins; July 12, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio MartĂ­n-BarĂł and Liberation Psychology
52 mins; July 11, 2024
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; July 09, 2024
Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
55 mins; July 07, 2024
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 11 mins; July 06, 2024
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; July 05, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
24 mins; July 05, 2024
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
74 hours 19 mins; July 04, 2024
Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
45 mins; July 03, 2024
Lance J. Sussman, "Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words" (Xlibris US, 2023)
46 mins; July 02, 2024
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 29, 2024
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
55 mins; June 29, 2024
Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, "The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
64 hours 4 mins; June 28, 2024
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
73 hours 48 mins; June 27, 2024
Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
39 mins; June 26, 2024
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
51 mins; June 24, 2024
Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
46 mins; June 22, 2024
Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
41 mins; June 14, 2024
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; June 14, 2024
Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
59 mins; June 11, 2024
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
37 mins; June 10, 2024
Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
49 mins; June 07, 2024
Aaron Fischman, "A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
67 hours 26 mins; June 07, 2024
Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)
59 mins; June 03, 2024
Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
62 hours 29 mins; June 03, 2024
Robert Cochran, "Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis" (U Arkansas Press, 2024)
74 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2024
Ryan White, "Springsteen: Album by Album" (Palazzo Editions, 2024)
58 mins; May 31, 2024
Peter A. Levine, "An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey" (Park Street Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 30, 2024
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 28, 2024
Marc C. Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
65 hours 7 mins; May 26, 2024
Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)
70 hours 0 mins; May 26, 2024
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 18 mins; May 26, 2024
Jerome’s Tears (with David Bonagura Jr.): Death and Mourning in Christian Late Antiquity
45 mins; May 24, 2024
Yehonatan Eybeshitz, "Pearls of Wisdom from Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz: Torah Giant, Preacher & Kabbalist" (Gerber's Miracle Publishers, 2021)
31 mins; May 24, 2024
Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
36 mins; May 23, 2024
Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; May 23, 2024
The Translator's Daughter: A Discussion with Grace Loh Prasad
53 mins; May 23, 2024
Jeremy Black, "In Fielding's Wake" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
46 mins; May 21, 2024
Chaim Miller, "Turning Judaism Outward: A Biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe" (Kol Menachem, 2014)
21 mins; May 18, 2024
David Winner, "Master Lovers: A Twisted Puzzle of Love and Fascism" (Outpost 19, 2023)
43 mins; May 13, 2024
Dan Chapman, "A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land" (Island Press, 2022)
59 mins; May 11, 2024
Hilary White, "Holes" (MA Bibliotheque, 2024)
35 mins; May 10, 2024
Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
30 mins; May 08, 2024
Hemjyoti Medhi, "Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 39 mins; May 08, 2024
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
74 hours 59 mins; May 05, 2024
Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
26 mins; May 03, 2024
Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
53 mins; May 03, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
46 mins; May 02, 2024
Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 02, 2024
Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
68 hours 58 mins; April 27, 2024
Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; April 24, 2024
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
46 mins; April 24, 2024
Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 24, 2024
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
36 mins; April 23, 2024
Jason Bell, "Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
58 mins; April 23, 2024
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
35 mins; April 22, 2024
Peter Gray, "William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism" (U College Dublin Press, 2023)
35 mins; April 21, 2024
Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
75 hours 54 mins; April 21, 2024
Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of VelĂĄzquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; April 20, 2024
Charles E. Curran, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian" (Georgetown UP, 2006)
59 mins; April 19, 2024
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