My Brothers' Keeper carries the listener through a deeply personal and intimate journey, as Gloria Reuben explores her love of the life she shared with her brothers, as well as...
Dinner in Camelot The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners—along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers—at a famed White House...
Reaching for the Moon A Short History of the Space Race
Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers.At the dawn of the space age, technological...
Up Jumped the Devil The Real Life of Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his...
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody The Making of a Black Theologian
James H. Cone is widely recognized as the founder of Black Liberation Theology — a synthesis of the Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the spirit of...
How to Set Yourself on Fire A Novel
Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and keeps a...
Generation Citizen The Power Of Youth In Our Politics
America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement, and our democracy is in doubt. Yet there is a new energy in the air. Young people are again taking up the role...
The Twice-Born Life And Death On The Ganges
When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised...
The Night Clave A Numenera Novel
Science fiction adventure in a decaying far-future setting, in the new tie-in novel from the popular Numenera tabletop and PC role-playing gamesIn the far-future Ninth World,...
Fiber The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It
The world of fiber-optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The...
