New Books in Communications
Episodes
Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values host...
Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919" (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, as variety shows flooded Canadian stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the ...
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History o...
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the I...
Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how ...
Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The 21st Century in 100 Games (Routledge India, 2024) is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling...
Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known...
Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China—right at the very end of the empire? In The Mak...
Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the f...
Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age" (Bristol UP, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its origins...
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures. I...
Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is known for his outfits. Since rising to become India’s head of government in 2014, photographers and jour...
Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine with Louise Brogan
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if in the age of AI generated content, the most important part of being visible online is just being a human? In this episode of The Publishing P...
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Th...
Tony Lee Moral, "A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2026)
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For over a century, Alfred Hitchcock has remained one of cinema's most influential directors. Known as the Master of Suspense, this visionary filmma...
Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust s...
Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026)
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film sti...
Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with...
Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (U Arizona Press, 2025), Dr. Georgia C. Ennis provides a comp...
Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026) ...
Mischa Oak, "Rainbow Wisdom: 18 LGBTQ+ Life Lessons for Everyone" (Page Two Book Inc. 2026)
17 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Mischa Oak about his book, Rainbow Wisdom: 18 LGBTQ Life Lessons for Everyone (Page Two Book In...
Ayşehan Jülide Etem, "Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations" (Columbia UP, 2026)
16 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations (Columbia UP, 2026) offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations a...
Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Repara...
Carol Rittner and John K Roth, "This Time: Teaching the Holocaust Today" (iPub Cloud, 2026)
09 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Written for educators, scholars, graduate students, and readers engaged in Holocaust education, genocide studies, history, ethics, religious studies, ...
Robin Andersen, "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza" (OR Books, 2026)
09 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Andersen's latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (OR Books, 2026), is a forensic and unflinchi...
The Religion Department: An Online Learning Platform with Andrew Mark Henry and Andrew Ali Aghapour
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Religion Department is an online learning platform dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion, created by the team behind Religion ...
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media ...
Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market? with Erin Cox of Words & Money
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strategy isn't social media — it's your local library? In the debut episode of The Publishing ...
Kirsten Clark, "Practical Project Management for Librarians" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Lea...
Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon, "Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis" (NYU Press, 2026)
25 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies’ most foundational methods at a moment when it is most ne...
Laura Horak, "Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come togeth...
Sarah Murray, "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" (NYU Press, 2026)
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Powered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and strea...
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny interviews Jacob Siegel, writer, Army veteran, and author of The Informat...
Wade Bishop et al., "A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age" (Emerald Publishing, 2026)
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity (Emerald, 2026) fosters a platform for information s...
Aurore Spiers, "Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978" (U California Press, 2026)
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when we assume women’s presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: W...
Qi Ai, "Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship" (Routledge, 2025)
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship (Routledge, 2025) offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a...
Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on ter...
Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (U California Press, 2026)
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Boom to Bust is a timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood work. When Hollywood ...
Katharina Wiedlack, "Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures (Academic Studies Press, 2025) examines the New Cold War...
John Bechtold, "U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space (Taylor & Francis, 2024), John Bechtold examines how the US military understan...
Annahid Dashtgard, "Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders" (Dundurn Press, 2026)
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Annahid Dashtgard about her new book, Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders (Dundurn Pr...
Christine Grandy, "Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of television in the history of the UK? In Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain (Cambridge UP, 2026) Chris...
Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Ben Co...
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to ad...
Gist Books: How Print on Demand Creates New Possibilities for the Publishing Industry
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Ramona Liberoff and Liz Fried, cofounders of the new publisher, Gist Books. Gist allows readers to pick the topics they want...
Deirdre Flynn and Mary McGill eds., "Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space" (Routledge, 2025)
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space (Routledge, 2025) explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online enviro...
A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press (Columbia UP, 2026), A.J. Bauer examines the history of the idea o...
P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and th...
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of deepening polarization, Sari Hanafi examines how social scientists often reproduce the very injustices they seek to challenge, taking ent...
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how ill...
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—what does that reveal about American democracy? In Stuck: How Money, Media and Viole...
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us thr...
Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As news reporters, we are in the story-telling business, the eye witnesses to history, writing, it's said, ‘the first draft of history'. T...
Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Given the sometimes extraordinary politicization of culture, it is surprising that Sesame Street has gained acceptance and legitimacy in more than fif...
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo...
Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why do certain women become icons of evil? Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Joanna Bourke offe...
Barbie Zelizer, "How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline" (Polity, 2025)
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspec...
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Fred T...
Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s, American glamour swept into a war-torn Britain as part of a broader transatlantic exchange of culture and commodities. But in this proce...
The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite al...
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gr...
Linda Quirk, "Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates" (U Alberta Press, 2025)
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a...
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley et al. eds., "Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media" (Routledge, 2025)
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Studying Chinese media has never been a stable intellectual enterprise. As Professor Yuezhi Zhao once observed, it often resembles aiming at a target ...
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explo...
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lon...
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomeno...
Betto van Waarden, "Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did politicians deal with mass communication in a rapidly changing society? And how did the performance of public politics both help and hinder de...
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradit...
Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media (Oxford UP, 2025) offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the Ameri...
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Author Noam Sienna unveils a vast Sephardic world created by these books. This literary network transcended geographical boundaries, connecting Jewish...
Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Midura joins Jana Byars to talk about Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell UP...
Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 8, “Charm Offensive” and episode 9, “...
Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Screening Precarity integrates a cultural analysis of film texts and history, industry transformations, and the violence and crises of political econ...
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath...
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel...
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a diffe...
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show...
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Previous guest Jacob Bricca (Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice) is a professional film editor and director, specializing in documentaries....
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipat...
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent sc...
Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it r...
Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) is an interdisciplinary examination of the stubborn attachment of ...
Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed ‘Strange Newes’ sheets of the sixteenth century to the se...
Cupid Jamila and Joell Myescha, "Who's in the Room? A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective" (Kendall Hunt, 2025)
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who’s in the Room?: A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2025) has been created to serve ...
Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the Am...
J Finley, "Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity" (UNC Press, 2024)
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing...
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream ...
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode (Wayne State UP, 2025), scholar Michelle Anya Anjirbag examines Disney's method of fai...
Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The media and creative industries thrive on passion, but that passion often comes at a cost. Behind the glamour of journalism, filmmaking, games, musi...
James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" (Freegovinfo Press, 2025)
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're pleased to welcome James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, authors of Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future (FreeGovInfo ...
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt (Oxford UP, 2025) tells the story of Hollywood's role in the shaping of the Rust Belt in t...
Claire Parnell, "Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2025
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, they encounter authors who started their careers by self-publishing prior ...
Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“When the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a deba...
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives" (Routledge, 2025)
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, New Books Network host Nina Bo Wagner talks to Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh about her new book Journalism and Gender: Global Perspecti...
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regim...
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stefania Marghitu's Teen TV (Routledge, 2021)explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ...
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media inc...
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind th...
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
September 11th, 2001 marked the beginning of the so-called war on terror, but the attacks of that day also re-ignited battles over the nature of Ameri...