I sat down with Olga Zilberbourg about her new collection of short stories, "Like Water and Other Stories."
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A conversation with Professor Michael Khodarkovsky about his new book, Russia's 20th Century: a fresh look at the arc of Soviet history.
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A conversation with Gill Paul about her latest historical novel and Romanov alternative history. In The Lost Daughter, Paul explores the possibility of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna’s possible escape from Yekaterinburg.
While the Russian Revolutions claimed many Romanov victims, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Nicholas II, famously survived. The life of this fascinating woman, born a Danish princess, is…
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Culinary historian, Veronika Hinke’s new book, The Last Night on the Titanic, Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style is a celebration of the ethos of the Titanic through the magnificent food…
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In Caroline Boggis-Rolfe's authoritative The Baltic Story, we meet pirates, princes, and prelates. While much divides the Slavs, Balts, Saxons, Poles, and Scandinavian peoples, much also unites them: rugged individualism…
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The Creative Podcast landscape is crowded and there is a ton of dross. These four creativity podcasts are authentic, generous, and informative.
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Guest blogger, Hannah Hethmon, host and producer of Museums in Strange Places Podcast joins Jennifer for a look at 5 Absorbing Museum Podcasts.
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Sink into these 5 exceptional podcasts about language to improve your use of the semi-colon, discover how the word “score” came to mean a unit of twenty, or learn more…
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It comes as no surprise that librarians have been in the vanguard of using podcasts to help spread the word about the great things you can find in the hallowed…
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