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Biography
Interviews with memoirists and biographers about their new books.
November 16, 2024
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the m…
November 15, 2024
A Question of Paternity
Today I talked to David Tereshchuk about his memoir A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter (Envelope Books, 2024) Tereshchuk le…
November 14, 2024
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, …
November 13, 2024
Kissing Girls on Shabbat
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately w…
November 12, 2024
How to Love a Child
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Engl…
November 10, 2024
The Life and Death of Ryan White
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Whi…
November 9, 2024
Us, After
Note: This episode contains mention of suicide. When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to hi…
November 8, 2024
Martin Van Buren
Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideration for his impact on American history. In his new b…
November 7, 2024
Backstage in Hong Kong
Today, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. But when John Duffus landed in Hong Kong in 1979 as the Philharmoni…
November 5, 2024
An Improbable Life
From evading the KGB and disassembling a downed American plane to narrowly escaping a life sentence in Siberia, Reuven Rashkovsky’s story is a grippin…
November 4, 2024
A Boy Broken
In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning (2023), Dr. Douglas J. Engelman takes us through a…
November 3, 2024
Three Worlds
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the r…
November 2, 2024
Dream
It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. B…
November 2, 2024
Sigh, Gone
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Flatiron Books,…
October 31, 2024
Beverly Hills Spy
Frederick Rutland—”Rutland of Jutland”—was a war hero, renowned World War I aviator…and a Japanese spy. In the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, Rutla…
October 30, 2024
Prophetic Maharaja
How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? …
October 26, 2024
Marco Polo and His World
Sharon Kinoshita talks with Jana Byars about her new book, Marco Polo and His World (Reaktion Press, 2024). A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed a…
October 23, 2024
Edward Duffield
Edward Duffield (1730–1803) was a colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, whose elegant brass, mahogany, and walnut timekeepers stand proudly in major Ameri…
October 22, 2024
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch
It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden can…
October 22, 2024
Frederick Barbarossa
For all of his importance as a medieval ruler, there are surprisingly few biographies in English of the German emperor Frederick Barbarossa (c. 1122-1…