In 2004, Historian Russell Shorto published “The Island at the Center of the World,” a book about Manhattan and the role of the Dutch in making New Yo...
The Book Show | Adrian McKinty - Hang On St. Christopher
May 20 2025 • 00:27:27
Adrian McKinty’s latest novel, “Hang on St. Christopher,” brings readers to July 1992 when The Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on afte...
The Book Show | Joy Harjo - Washing My Mother's Body
May 06 2025 • 00:27:27
Poet Joy Harjo’s poems are described as musical, intimate, political and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and ...
The Book Show | Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare
Apr 22 2025 • 00:27:27
When Chloe Dalton, a city-dwelling professional with a high-pressure job, finds a newly born hare - endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm - sh...
The Book Show | Chris Hayes - The Sirens' Call
Apr 15 2025 • 00:27:27
Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning host of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” In his new book, “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s ...
The Book Show | Emma Donoghue - The Paris Express
Apr 08 2025 • 00:27:04
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The Book Show | Karen Russell - The Antidote
Apr 01 2025 • 00:27:21
Karen Russell's latest, “The Antidote,” is a dust bowl novel and a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting that enacts the settler amnesia and omissions ...
The Book Show | Colum McCann - Twist
Mar 25 2025 • 00:27:27
Colum McCann is the New York Times bestselling author of “Let the Great World Spin.” His new novel, “Twist,” tells a propulsive story of rupture and r...
The Book Show | Julia Alvarez - The Cemetery of Untold Stories [encore airing]
Mar 18 2025 • 00:27:24
Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” returns with “The Cemetery of Unt...