All Pieces for Francesca Rheannon

 
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We talk with Les Leopold of the Labor Institute about his groundbreaking study of the political cost of mass layoffs. His book is Wall Street’s War...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:55
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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:10:45
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We talk with Elizabeth Flock about her book, The Furies. It follows three remarkable women — in the US, in India and in Syria — who took justice in...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:20
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Mind & Liberation: Unveiling Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Psychiatry and Post-Colonial Vision. Also, a Cherokee murder mystery. We talk with Adam S...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:29
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We talk with world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann about climate, past, present and future. His book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons fro...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new novel The Lost Cause, “a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency.” It imagine...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Writer’s Voice spends the hour with Jonathan Eig talking about his acclaimed new biography, KING: A Life. It’s a captivating portrait of the renown...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Paul Kix tells us the thrilling story of the fight to end Jim Crow, led by the greatest figures of the Civil Rights Movement—and won by children. W...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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We talk with Simon Worrall and Heather Dune-Macadam about the fascinating and tragic story of a young Jewish artist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Their b...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:04
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We spend the hour with Corban Addison talking about his spell-binding legal thriller, WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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We talk with ecologist Carl Safina about his book, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. It’s about how a tiny ragged ball of fluff ta...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 36:19
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We talk with Tania James about her acclaimed new novel, Loot. It’s about a boy on a quest, a girl determined to make her way in a man’s world and a...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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July 4, 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Are we exceeding the “Goldilocks zone” of a habitable planet? We ask that question of cli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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We speak with Chetna Maroo about her debut novel, Western Lane. It’s a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl and her British I...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:53
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We talk with V, formerly known as Eve Ensler about her collection of essays and poems, Reckoning. Then in honor of Black History Month, we listen ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
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For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:42
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We talk with deep sea explorer Edith Widder about Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir Of Exploring Light And Life In The Deep Sea. Then, we revis...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:39
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We talk with best-selling author Ken Follett about his new novel, Never. It’s a chilling look about how a small international incident could lead t...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:05