NBN Book of the Day
The "NBN Book of the Day" features the most timely and interesting author interviews from the New Books Network delivered to you every weekday.
1501
Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the P...
An interview with Adrian Wooldridge
70 min
1502
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work...
How does Bob Dylan write songs? Timothy Hampton explains....
58 min
1503
Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscu...
We all know not to believe the hype. Turns out, that's pretty hard....
76 min
1504
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: ...
Cloth. It's more important than you think....
60 min
1505
Paul Donovan, "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddit...
Prejudice is bad. But it's also expensive....
40 min
1506
Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Econom...
Five tech giants alone account for a quarter of the S&P500. What does that mean?
45 min
1507
E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Cl...
Chemerinsky and Gillman explain how freedom of religion is enshrined in the First Amendment through two provisions...
35 min
1508
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (L...
Should you eat meat? Probably not, says Peter Singer....
59 min
1509
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Relig...
What is the relation between science and religion? Glenn Sauer has some thoughts....
57 min
1510
Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms ...
Why do mass atrocities occur? Paul Morrow has a theory....
68 min
1511
Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A ...
What's it like to be a gay priest? Tom Rastrelli explains...
58 min
1512
Jim Downs, "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History ...
Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets...
30 min
1513
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illus...
Was Freud a megalomaniacal, greedy, cocaine-addled opportunist? Yes, says Frederick Crews, he was...
55 min
1514
Jim Mason, "An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Ou...
Why are we destroying the only world we have? Jim Mason explains...
85 min
1515
Jeremy Black, "George III: Madness and Majesty"...
George III may or may not have been mad, but he was certainly lived in very challenging times...
37 min
1516
Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightene...
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”?
66 min
1517
Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The ...
"One Country, Two Systems?" Not if Beijing has its way....
81 min
1518
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of...
Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself...
42 min
1519
Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and ...
"At their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”...
35 min
1520
Conspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Eve...
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory...
41 min
1521
Katja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of She...
What actually happens to animals in "animal shelters?"
81 min
1522
Daniel Deudney, "Dark Skies: Space Expansionism...
What happens when we militarize space?
71 min
1523
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Pu...
In 1980, Punk Rock went to war...
63 min
1524
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcit...
The US has oil on the brain. This mania has consequences....
62 min
1525
Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Per...
What did it mean for African Americans to "pass?" Julia Charles explains...
47 min