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Biography
Interviews with memoirists and biographers about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Happy Death Club
Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end of…
July 25, 2024
Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar
This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual jo…
July 25, 2024
The Puppet Masters
In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of P…
July 25, 2024
The Poisoner of Bengal
It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a…
July 25, 2024
Love Me Fierce In Danger
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures i…
July 23, 2024
Committed
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student a…
July 21, 2024
The Same Moon Shines on All
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditiona…
July 20, 2024
The Women Who Ruled China
In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she h…
July 19, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co…
July 18, 2024
Stranger in My Own Land
In this very moving and heartwarming interview I had the opportunity to discuss with Fida Jiyris her work, a beautifully written memoir that tells the…
July 18, 2024
Eliza Scidmore
Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geogra…
July 16, 2024
Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence
Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, Voice, Slavery, an…
July 12, 2024
American Madness
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media. In contrast, conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and eve…
July 11, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jes…
July 9, 2024
The Women Are Up to Something
The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris …
July 7, 2024
Einstein's Dreams
Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural interconnection of…
July 6, 2024
American Aurora
American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern ra…
July 5, 2024
Becoming the Ex-Wife
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life ba…
July 5, 2024
Defoe's Britain
The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Brita…
July 4, 2024
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book …