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The dauntless nurse of Hospital Sketches gains a deeper understanding of the effects of war from the wounded men she cares for in the second part o...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
The life and thought of sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist W.E.B. DuBois.
Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KUAT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 17
What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 58:22
Beloved as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott drew on her service as a Union nurse during the Civil War for her first major literary suc...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 3
Anton Treuer wrote the book “Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask.” People have questions, he says, but feel uncomfor...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 2
Christmas is the setting as sly women turn the tables on their menfolk in a pair of overlooked short stories from the classic era of magazine fiction.
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 3
Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin’s poignant beast fable led to his imprisonment by the Chinese government on charges of inciting separatism. The tal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 58:26
- Purchases: 2
Contemporary women poets reimagine fairy tales and the cultural icon of the ballerina—especially of the black swan school—along with two unsettling...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
In response to the November 13 attacks in Paris, Books Unbound revisits an episode originally created in the wake of the January 7 attack on the of...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 58:57
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 1
“Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the featured story for the Halloween finale of “American Girls Horror Stories.” One of Poe’s lesser-known tales, “...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 56:01
Male fears of female domination form one of the strands of horror in “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, with marriage both transforming...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 58:25
Shuka Kalantari talks to Andy Martin, author of "The Boxer and The Goal Keeper: Sartre versus Camus."
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
A hallucinatory, apocalyptic fervor pervades the 1860 short story “Circumstance” by Harriet Prescott Spofford, about a woman held all night by a my...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 58:03
A cultural horror of women’s bodies is the theme of the second episode of “American Girls Horror Stories,” juxtaposing two 19th-century American gh...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 57:49
A month of sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, and horror begins with two stories from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
The writing of Joshua Clover blends the worlds of poetry and economic crisis. We discuss his latest book of poetry, Red Epic, and his forthcoming w...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 59:55
Terry Gould is a veteran and author of "How Can You Mend This Purple Heart". He talks about our need to recognize and show support for our veterans.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 01:01
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, Books Unbound’s summer series “Elizabeth Stoddard and the 1860s” concludes with...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 58:07
The Civil War-era novel Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902) heads into its final chapters. Spoiled by what we now label “white male privilege...
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 58:52
The death of the matriarch and the return of the family adventurer casts the future of the Parke dynasty in doubt, while an interracial love affair...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 57:55
Set in antebellum New England but published in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the novel Two Men begins to draw together the nar...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:03
The novel Two Men continues as rumor spreads of a Parke family heir’s affair with a biracial woman. The compressed, elliptical and sometimes satiri...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:22
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. In th...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:04
