Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
National Book Award Longlist 2020 Washington POst 10 Best Books of the Year 2020
A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands. Learn More
by Bruce Conforth & Gayle Dean Wardlow; read by Leon Nixon
The result of over fifty years of research, Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Robert Johnson. Learn More
Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Learn More
by Jori Epstein; foreword by Michael Berenbaum; read by Jori Epstein
Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, this memoir relays holocaust survivor Max Glauben's powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience. Max insists you, too, can transform your adversity into your greatest strength. Learn More
New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
From reproductive health to the impact of antibiotics and probiotics, and the latest trends, including vaginal steaming, vaginal marijuana products, and jade eggs, OB/GYN Jen Gunter takes us on a factual, fun-filled journey in The Vagina Bible. Learn More
An immersive descent into one of the most mysterious and bizarre unsolved cases of this century. Through extensive research, personal interviews, and exclusive evidence, Jake Anderson unearths the truth behind the disappearance of a loving, plucky family that was gradually worn down, warped—by pain and pathology—into a radicalized cell. Learn More
by Dr. Stacie Stephenson; read by Dr. Stacie Stephenson
Today's view of wellness is far too often fragmented, focusing on specific symptoms rather than the whole person. In Vibrant, Dr. Stacie Stephenson introduces listeners to a new and empowering way of looking at health. Learn More
Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Learn More
by Katja Franko and David R. Goyes; read by Ana Clements
Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence inflicted on Medellín, Colombia, and critically examines the status of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the impact of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past on the victims of mass drug violence and on the present nature of the city. Learn More
by Stanley Crouch; introduction by Jelani Cobb; afterword by Wynton Marsalis; edited by Glenn Mott
The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays. Learn More
Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Learn More
by Charles Ryan, with Hudson Perigo; read by PJ Ochlan
Integrating the molecular and the medical, sociology and storytelling, The Virility Paradoxoffers a fascinating look at how one hormone has shaped history, and the connections between our biology, our behavior, and our best selves. Learn More
by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.; read by J. Rodney Turner
They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. Learn More
In this book, Tim Strangleman tells the story of the Guinness brewery at Park Royal, showing how the history of one plant tells us a much wider story about changing attitudes and understandings about work in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Learn More
by Nick Ochsner and Michael Graff; read by Nick Ochsner
The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time. Learn More
An expert on U.S. election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective. Learn More
