Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris and a full cast deliver a must-listen performance of Norris’s riveting examination of race in America. Based on 12 years of submissions to Norris’s Race Card Project—six words about race from over half-a-million people—the audiobook shifts between Norris’s clear, warm, thoughtful commentary and participants’ contributions, all delivered by a talented group of narrators. We hear some expanded stories and many six-word submissions. “Black wears me wherever I go.” “‘But I voted for Barack Obama.” “White Privilege. Enjoy it. Earned it.” “Lady, I don’t want your purse.” “Colors run together. Why not people?” The result is painful, consoling, infuriating, funny, enlightening. As Norris says, “There’s more work to be done.” Let’s do it.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2024
Duration: 17 hrs, 45 mins
DD ISBN: 9781797167671
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
The mysteries of Easter Island point to some familiar culprits.
British archeologist Pitts proves a compelling narrator for his solidly researched history of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. Conventional wisdom sees the ruin of Rapa Nui as a case of ecological collapse, its limited resources squandered on erecting hundreds of giant stone heads. In a steady, subdued voice, Pitts tracks another history. Rapa Nui was first visited by westerners in 1722, and the inhabitants suffered the fate of many native peoples: slave raids, novel diseases, and cultural erasure by missionaries. One by one, Pitt demolishes the various conjectures Rapa Nui has since inspired while building solid evidence for another, more plausible narrative with a very different message to impart.
The mysteries of Easter Island point to some familiar culprits.Pub Date: Jan. 27, 2026
Duration: 12 hrs, 15 mins
DD ISBN: 9780063344709
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Feb. 24, 2026
Julian Brave NoiseCat delivers a tribute, a social history, and an insightful series of reports from Indian Country. His knowledge of Northwest Salish languages and folkways informs this finely written and thoughtfully delivered audiobook. NoiseCat's witty and erudite pieces on the mythology of Coyote, his unflinching accounts of the horrors of Canadian boarding schools, and his descriptions of the features of contemporary tribes in North America do the listener a real service. He also tells his own family's story: His father, a noted wood-carver, was found in an incinerator; his grandfather was the progenitor of dozens of offspring, and his own remarkable career as co-director of a Sundance Award-winning film and an accomplished powwow dancer adds to the wide-angle story.
Pub Date: Oct. 14, 2025
Duration: 15 hrs
DD ISBN: 9798217165506
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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