Menu
New Books in Biography & Memoir
Podcast image
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
57 mins; January 24, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
38 mins; January 22, 2023
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 9 mins; January 20, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
85 hours 55 mins; January 20, 2023
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
59 mins; January 18, 2023
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
59 mins; January 15, 2023
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
113 hours 26 mins; January 15, 2023
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
54 mins; January 15, 2023
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
40 mins; January 14, 2023
Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine DelbrĂȘl and the New Papal Constitution
54 mins; January 13, 2023
Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
50 mins; January 13, 2023
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
79 hours 12 mins; January 12, 2023
Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis
57 mins; January 11, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 21 mins; January 11, 2023
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
114 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2023
Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
73 hours 49 mins; January 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; January 07, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 06, 2023
Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
39 mins; January 04, 2023
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
77 hours 57 mins; January 03, 2023
Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
72 hours 1 min; January 03, 2023
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
33 mins; January 02, 2023
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
27 mins; December 30, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
27 mins; December 25, 2022
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, 1801-1825" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
60 hours 40 mins; December 25, 2022
Emma Wild-Wood, "The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935" (James Currey, 2020)
95 hours 13 mins; December 25, 2022
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; December 25, 2022
Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
36 mins; December 24, 2022
Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
69 hours 4 mins; December 21, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
88 hours 3 mins; December 21, 2022
Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
129 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2022
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
61 hours 11 mins; December 18, 2022
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
63 hours 31 mins; December 17, 2022
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
73 hours 53 mins; December 16, 2022
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
60 hours 44 mins; December 15, 2022
Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
61 hours 34 mins; December 14, 2022
Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
43 mins; December 14, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
59 mins; December 14, 2022
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
68 hours 34 mins; December 13, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
76 hours 20 mins; December 11, 2022
Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
43 mins; December 09, 2022
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
56 mins; December 07, 2022
Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; December 03, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
44 mins; December 01, 2022
The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
49 mins; November 30, 2022
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; November 28, 2022
Cornelia Spelman, "Missing" (Jackleg Press, 2022)
40 mins; November 28, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
56 mins; November 25, 2022
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; November 25, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
87 hours 11 mins; November 24, 2022
Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
74 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2022
Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
30 mins; November 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
47 mins; November 23, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
62 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2022
Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
29 mins; November 22, 2022
Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2022
Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
42 mins; November 17, 2022
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
60 hours 3 mins; November 17, 2022
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 11, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 11, 2022
Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
54 mins; November 10, 2022
Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
86 hours 29 mins; November 09, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
76 hours 57 mins; November 03, 2022
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
70 hours 10 mins; November 02, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
63 hours 45 mins; November 02, 2022
Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; November 01, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
31 mins; October 26, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
84 hours 47 mins; October 25, 2022
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
63 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2022
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
63 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2022
The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
60 hours 0 mins; October 25, 2022
Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
46 mins; October 20, 2022
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2022
Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
39 mins; October 18, 2022
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
63 hours 24 mins; October 18, 2022
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; October 17, 2022
Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
67 hours 21 mins; October 17, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
65 hours 22 mins; October 17, 2022
Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; October 14, 2022
Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)
44 mins; October 13, 2022
John D'Emilio, "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties" (Duke UP, 2022)
47 mins; October 12, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 2 mins; October 10, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
55 mins; October 10, 2022
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
80 hours 15 mins; October 10, 2022
Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
24 mins; October 07, 2022
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
17 mins; October 06, 2022
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
32 mins; October 05, 2022
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
63 hours 9 mins; October 05, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
38 mins; October 04, 2022
R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'": A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's 'Flying Fortress'" (Kieran Publishing, 2021)
59 mins; October 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great" (Oxford UP, 2018)
49 mins; October 02, 2022
Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
43 mins; September 29, 2022
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
55 mins; September 28, 2022
Rosemary LĂ©vy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
55 mins; September 27, 2022
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
73 hours 4 mins; September 23, 2022
OlĂșfemi TĂĄĂ­wĂČ, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
65 hours 29 mins; September 22, 2022
Karen O'Brein-Kop, "Phiroz Mehta: A Zoroastrian Teacher of Indian Philosophy of Religion in 1970s-80s Britain"
45 mins; September 22, 2022
Click here to see more
Useful pages

Apply to teach

Reviews

Help & FAQs

Blog

Spanish Podcast

French Podcast

Italian Podcast

About Us

Contact Us

Terms & Privacy

Find a tutor

Arabic tutors

Chinese tutors

Dutch tutors

English tutors

French tutors

German tutors

Greek tutors

Italian tutors

Japanese tutors

Korean tutors

Portuguese tutors

Romanian tutors

Russian tutors

Spanish tutors

Swedish tutors

Thai tutors

More languages soon!

Languages

Learn Arabic

Learn Chinese

Learn Dutch

Learn English

Learn French

Learn German

Learn Greek

Learn Italian

Learn Japanese

Learn Korean

Learn Portuguese

Learn Romanian

Learn Russian

Learn Spanish

Learn Swedish

Learn Thai

© 2026 LanguaTalk, All Rights Reserved