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Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory

Posted August 7, 202300:53:37

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Nicole Fox about her monograph, After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda...

Michael Dorgan, "No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist's Life in Martial Arts" (part 2)

Posted July 31, 202301:28:00

Part two of Stu Levitan’s conversation with his friend and former newspaper colleague Michael Dorgan, about his new book No Fight, No Blame:...

On (Short) Storytelling, with Wisconsin writer Steve Fox

Posted July 17, 202300:48:30

The stories included in Steve Fox’s new collection “traverse a tapestry of tenderness, dissonance, indifference, dystopia, and charm.” They frequently...

The search for dignity in Palestine, with Christa Bruhn

Posted July 10, 202300:53:33

The Palestinian city of Jenin, in the West Bank, is in international headlines after several were killed and dozens injured in an Israel raid. The city...

Local Writer JK Cheema On Writing, Family, And Remembering The Past

Posted July 3, 202300:53:00

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with JK Cheema on her new memoir,