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Véra Nabokov

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

Vladimir Nabokov is best known for writing the highly controversial yet critically revered novel, Lolita. But the book might never have made it onto t...

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Mary Lincoln

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

Mary Lincoln is the First Lady everyone loves to hate. But without her, would Abe Lincoln even have been president in the first place? Theirs is a lov...

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Dipika Guha on the Gandhis

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

Playwright Dipika Guha joins Liza to give insight into the complicated relationship between her home country of India and Gandhi's legacy in this time...

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Kasturba Gandhi

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

Mohandas Gandhi helped India win independence from Britain through nonviolent resistance but little know that he credits the inspiration for his tacti...

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Countess Sophia Tolstoy

Episode Date: July 20, 2022

Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Yet, without his wife, Sophia Tolstoy, would the world have been gifted wit...