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- Publication Date | Nov 15, 2024Duration | 00:44:07Publication Date | Nov 15, 2024Duration | 00:44:07As part of The New York Times Book Review's project on the 100 Best Books published since the year 2000, Nick Hornby called "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" one of the "great...
- Publication Date | Nov 08, 2024Duration | 00:38:15Publication Date | Nov 08, 2024Duration | 00:38:15The works of John le Carré, who died in 2020, are among the most beloved thrillers of all time. For some, books like "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "A Perfect Spy" and "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" are s...
Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:42:10Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:42:10As a documentary about her life reaches cinemas, musician and activist Pauline Black, the lead singer in 2-tone hit band The Selecter, talks about her career. We hear from the curators of the Waters Rising exh...- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:15:16Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:15:16This Friday marks the opening of a new major exhibition at the Guggenheim examining an artist movement that inspired the museum's own iconic building design. Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 ...
- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:34:28Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:34:28Our November Full Bio selection is John Lewis: A Life, written by author David Greenberg. Greenberg interviewed Lewis before his death as well as over 250 people for a comprehensive biography about the US Congr...
- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:26:51Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:26:51A new biography of Jimmy Breslin demonstrates how he helped usher in an age of New Journalism, and broke new ground with his decades of crime reporting throughout the city. Author Richard Esposito joins us to d...
- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:24:07Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:24:07Kai Wright joins Alison to reflect on Election Night and we take listener calls.
Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 01:13:07Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 01:13:07A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your discretion and take care if you decide to listen. If you or s...- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 01:04:37Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 01:04:37The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of Lond...
- Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:51:29Publication Date | Nov 06, 2024Duration | 00:51:29In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernaculari...
