Arts & Entertainment

Mr. B

by Jennifer Homans; read by Cassandra Campbell

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing"—from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Learn More

The Man of the Crowd

by Scott Peeples & Michelle Van Parys; read by Daniel Henning

The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Edgar Allan Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. Learn More

Mademoiselle

Rhonda Garelick; read by Tavia Gilbert

A stunning new biography of Coco Chanel—the high priestess of twentieth-century fashion—that examines her critical place in history and the ingenious powers by which she internalized and transmitted the cultural trends of her time. Learn More

MacTrump

by Ian Doescher & Jacopo della Quercia; read by Susan Bennett, Rachel Botchan, Eliza Foss, Christopher Gebauer, Johnny Heller, Brian Hutchison, Jennifer O’Donnell, Thomas Picasso, Jonathan Todd Ross, T Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier, Jaine Ye, and Adam Grupp

For listeners craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration. Learn More

Macbeth

by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance

From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, Macbeth. Learn More

Love Lives

by Carol Dyhouse; read by Rachael Beresford

The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been reshaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr. Right, and happy endings. Learn More

Lost and Found Sound and Beyond

Produced by the Kitchen Sisters with Jay Allison; hosted by Francis Ford Coppola

The follow up to Lost & Found Sound, featuring a historic as well as intimate soundscape: letters from a soldier in the foxholes of Vietnam, Mohawk iron workers at the World Trade Center, a 1977 home recording made by Francis Ford Coppola and his five-year old daughter Sofia, and much more. Learn More

Lost and Found Sound

Produced by the Kitchen Sisters with Jay Allison; hosted by Noah Adams

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Learn More

A Long, Long Way

by Greg Garrett; read by Tom Perkins

A Long, Long Way incorporates both cinematic and religious truth-telling to the subject of race and reconciliation. In acknowledging the racist history of America's national art form, Garrett offers the possibility of hope for the future. Learn More

A Long Strange Trip

by Dennis McNally; read by Sean Runnette

The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s' counterculture. Learn More

London's Triumph

by Stephen Alford; read by John Lee

For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. Learn More

The Lives of Isaac Stern

by David Schoenbaum; read by Tom Perkins

A centennial celebration of the career and legacy of the first made-in-America violin virtuoso and one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians. Learn More

Live From New York

by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales; read by Christina Delanie and Paul Woodson

In Live From New YorkJames Andrew Miller and Tom Shales raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies. Learn More

Listen Up!

by Mark Howard & Chris Howard; read by Peter Berkrot

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field. Learn More

Limelight

by Martin Popoff; read by Michael Butler Murray

Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the '80s, and the second book of Popoff's staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes listeners from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Learn More