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Biography & Memoir
Interviews with biographers and memoirists about their new books.
August 7, 2026
Life Writing and the End of Empire
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) examines how autobiographical writing reflec…
August 6, 2026
Overlord
Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the reli…
August 5, 2026
Chasing Freedom
"In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'." Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war…
August 5, 2026
Boss Lincoln
We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to…
August 4, 2026
Korean Messiah
Of the two Koreas, it is the South which appears much the more Christian today, with all major cities dotted with church spires and illuminated crosse…
August 1, 2026
Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech
Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Returns to Marrakesh, co-translated by Claudia Esposito and Laura Reeck and published by Syracuse University Press in 2026, chroni…
July 30, 2026
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections–alternately humorous, provocat…
July 25, 2026
Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English"
Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed Germa…
July 22, 2026
Eminent Jews
What made a generation of Jewish artists and intellectuals transform American culture? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with acclaimed cultu…
July 21, 2026
State of Others
Elad Lapidot is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Lille, France. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowl…
July 15, 2026
The Forger of Paris
The Forger of Paris (Doppelhouse Press, 2025) presents Adolfo Kaminsky’s biography in its only authorized edition, expanded with photographs from Kami…
July 15, 2026
This Is Rhythm
Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer i…
July 13, 2026
Heidegger in Ruins
Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Fre…
July 11, 2026
Restaurant Kid
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Rachel Phan about her powerful memoir, Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family & Belonging (Douglas & …
July 9, 2026
Blow by Blow
With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon known and loved by millions. Yet somehow, he maintained the ineffable low p…
July 6, 2026
Churchill and the Crown
Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king. His family had enjoyed an intimate association with the British m…
July 2, 2026
Thy Will Be Done
In Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026), historian John Garrison Marks tells th…
July 1, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Princeton University Press, 2026) is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writing…
June 29, 2026
The Golden Throne
What does a 16th century ruler reveal about the nature of power, past and present? Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinn…
June 28, 2026
Railroaded
Fred S. Naiden, professor emeritus of history of at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an authority on the ancient world. In the 1980…