Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Consider...
4 Jan 20221h 8min
Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban wal...
30 Dec 202149min
Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)
Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexico since the 1968 Tlatelolco students massacre. Tod...
29 Dec 202129min
Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitti...
29 Dec 202134min
Mesfin Tadesse and Ianet Bastyan, "Lucy's People: An Ethiopian Memoir" (Yerada Lij, 2021)
Lucy's People: An Ethiopian Memoir (Yerada Lij,2021) is the inspiring story of a country and a life. Young engineer Mesfin grows up under Emperor Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia. She is mother to all her...
29 Dec 20212h 38min
Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific prog...
28 Dec 20211h 1min
Carolyn Eastman, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity" (UNC Press, 2021)
The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2021) by ...
23 Dec 202131min
Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (Duke UP, 2021), Michael K. Bourdaghs explores ...
22 Dec 202152min
