Nick Nolte's Memoir of Rebellion, Can Midwives Fix Maternal Health?, How Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Survived Max Security Prison

Midday on WNYC | May 25, 2018

Actor Nick Nolte talks about his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines. Laura Zeidenstein, director of the Graduate Midwifery Program at Columbia University, and ProPublica reporter Nina Martin explain how midwives could improve maternal healthcare in the U.S. Award-winning Rania Abouzeid discusses her book No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria. Writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o discusses his book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, written in the 1980's and not published in the U.S. until now.

This episode is guest hosted by Mary Harris. It originally aired on March 12, 2018.

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