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Biography & Memoir
Interviews with biographers and memoirists about their new books.
November 9, 2026
Between Two Millstones, Book 2
Join Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney, and Carter Sneed as they discuss the second part of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s memoirs of exile in the West, Be…
November 8, 2026
Crossing The Gap
Two girls are born in the same Chicago hospital. Their neighborhoods—just seven train stops apart—will shape their futures and help determine how long…
November 6, 2026
Save a Seat For Me
From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is Mark Ant…
November 4, 2026
Christian Individualism
In Christian Individualism: The Maverick Biblical Workmanship of Otis Q. Sellers (Atmosphere Press, 2026), Anthony Flood traces Sellers's journey from…
November 3, 2026
Orson Welles
Orson Welles is a foundational work of Welles criticism. First published by Joseph McBride in the British Film Institute's Cinema One series in 1972 w…
November 3, 2026
Anne Fernald on Her Own Voice
Be the main character in the story that is your life – that is the ambition of eight remarkable women featured in Anne Fernald’s collective biography,…
November 3, 2026
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker: : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America (SUNY Press, 2025) is the first biography dedicated to the l…
November 2, 2026
C-Suite Bound
Veronica Villarreal earned her joint MHA/MBA at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, took her first job out of the program at DHR Health in the Rio G…
November 2, 2026
Man-Devil
In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy …
November 1, 2026
Mediating God
Mediating God: Muhammad Ghazali and the Politics of Divine Presence in 20th century Egypt (Oxford UP, 2025) is a fascinating and compelling intellectu…
October 31, 2026
Hollywood Renegade
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey and…
October 29, 2026
Karmic Winds
Karmic Winds: Reflections from “The Smartest Guy in Hollywood” (Rare Bird Books, 2026) is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffm…
October 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (P…
October 29, 2026
Last Day
Based on the groundbreaking podcast of the same name, Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis (Gallery/Lemonada Books, 2026) …
October 27, 2026
Rehearsing the Future
In Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026), Michael Doan explores the work and legacy of James a…
October 27, 2026
Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey
Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We …
October 26, 2026
The Expanded Editions of Elie Wiesel
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, Jake Kildoo facilitates a conversation between Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenber…
October 26, 2026
In Praise of Addiction
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mo…
October 25, 2026
A Protestant Air
A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity (Cornell UP, 2026) focuses on the Protestant connection linking three …