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What happens when beauty intersects with horror? Jehanne Dubrow joins us to talk about her newest nonfiction collection, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity.

On this episode we're joined by Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books. We’ll hear excerpts from some of my favorite interviews with: singer-songwriter Janis Ian; and professor, author and search and rescuer Scott Hammond.

In this much-anticipated sequel of the book, Massacre at Mountain Meadows Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Vengeance Is Mine.

We're joined by Ben Goldfarb to talk wildlife and discuss his upcoming book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.

Marcel Danesi is a professor emeritus of semiotics and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of the recent book, Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective, and he joins us to dive into the psychology of conspiracies.

We revisit our conversation with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait to discuss his new book Under Alien Skies.

In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present. James Tabery joins us for this episode.

Today we talk with the editors of an upcoming book A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation. Our guests are editors Timothy Hemmis and David Head.

Today we’ll talk with Jennifer Ackerman, the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, about her new book What An Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds, a scientific investigation into owls.

Dr. Elizabeth D. Hilborn is a veterinarian, a honeybee specialist, and a senior environmental health scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She jois us to talk about her new book, Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farm Community.