Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. ...
25 Helmi 20221h 16min
Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
The Biblical Book of Esther reads like a classic fable, a drama of actors who are recognizable archetypes. There is Esther, the beautiful orphan who becomes queen, Ahasuerus, the buffoon king, Haman, ...
25 Helmi 202244min
William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Poet and jazz band musician Sun Ra, born in 1914, is one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his band ...
24 Helmi 20221h 30min
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly—with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects—to his invent...
24 Helmi 202248min
Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)
Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Norton, 2020), she deli...
22 Helmi 20221h
The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
How did Steve Bannon come to believe the strange things he believes? The influential, former Trump aid, began as a Democrat-supporting Naval officer with an interest in Buddhism and transcendental med...
22 Helmi 20221h
Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
In Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage (She Writes Press, 2021), Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents’ influential lives at the crossroads of German and...
21 Helmi 202253min
Christopher Clarey, "The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer" (Twelve, 2021)
There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Ra...
18 Helmi 202249min
