New Books in Communications
Episodes
Making Radio History
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University. She is the author of The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the Ameri...
Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke UP, 2020), Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequ...
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor sits down with Marc Owen Jones, associate professor at Northwestern University in Qata...
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) by Dr. Adam Kotsko explores the beloved science fiction...
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—...
Writing Against the System
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and ...
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of o...
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstream...
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor ...
Joe Pierre, "False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford UP, 2025)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microchips in our vaccines, stolen elections, climate change denial--in the face of a bewildering range of misbeliefs that stem from mistrust of infor...
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen’s Power Plait to JoJo Siwa’s outsize bows, become such a significant part of how g...
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. Melissa Vise, offers a new account of how th...
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were t...
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Amy McHugh, an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney. Dr McHugh...
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the...
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army...
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of d...
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fi...
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (Oxford UP, 2024), Nadira Khatun explores the contentious ...
Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Stang, editor, joins Jana Byars to talk about Monstrosity in Games and Play (Amsterdam UP, 2024). Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklor...
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i...
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has a long history of publishers operating from abroad, producing books and periodicals for a Russian-speaking audience. One notable example is...
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making. Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the ...
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary represen...
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her res...
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, ...
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In...
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future ain't what it used to be. Is nostalgia revitalizing or killing 21st-century culture? The concept of nostalgia has seeped into almost all as...
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does social media shape perceptions of global cultural trends? On Chinese platforms like WeChat, the concept of Nordic Style (北欧风) has been ...
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our book is: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker (Mariner Books, 2024) by Dr. Amy Reading, which is a lively and intimate bi...
Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the third podcast of this series, “Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds,” host Dr. Karyne Messina, psychologist, psychoanalyst and...
Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is a collection of Peter Boxall's essays over tw...
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Americans increasingly depend upon their phones, computers, and internet resources, their actions are less private than they believe. Data is routi...
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lec...
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pernicious social impact of social media platforms is a matter of global concern, as this digital technology has become a breeding ground for the ...
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique appr...
Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, "Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between s...
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling spo...
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two con...
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World (Verso, 2024) by Marijiam Did asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead ...
Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery...
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm? With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the ...
Understanding Disinformation
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we discern what is factual from what isn’t? In this episode, Dr. Colleen Sinclair joins us to discuss the functions of disinformation, and to...
Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 HZ
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk to Dallas Taylor, host of the most popular sound podcast on the planet, Twenty Thousand Hertz. I like to think our show sounds pretty g...
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples and Things host, Lee Vinsel, is joined by guest host and Peoples & Things producer, Joe Forte, Media Projects Manager with Virginia Tech Publi...
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on...
Multilingual Crisis Communication
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan Universi...
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you walk into David Cecchetto‘s classroom, you might find people wearing audio devices that simulate hearing with a thousand-foot wide head. Or ...
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search for your symptoms and then to evaluate the informat...
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, ser...
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in S...
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2024), Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black ...
Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wanted to protect your books from forgetful borrowers, merciless page-folders or outright thieves? Perhaps you have even wished harm on ...
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material.” I was first int...
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item...
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appr...
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The early twentieth century was a particularly tumultuous time in Chinese history, complete with new conflicts, new technologies, and — as Portray...
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the firs...
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool tha...
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge UP, 2024) tells a story about the relationship between secular law...
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French b...
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Pol...
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s med...
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump (Spring, 2024) is Randy Fertel’s third book, his second on improvisation. Creating s...
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Pro...
Awfully Viral
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s summer and we are busy working on episodes for our fourth season. We’ve also rebuilt our website–check out the the fabulous new phantompod....
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers. Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game...
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are gr...
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital tec...
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we’re joined by Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder for a thought-provoking discussion on the state of fre...
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Sterne is one of the most influential scholars working on sound and listening. His 2003 book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound R...
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You’re in our world now.” This bold tagline led Sony’s 1999 ad blitz for EverQuest (Boss Fight Books, 2024), the year’s most anticipated ...
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current st...
Reem Hilu, "The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geare...
Voices Part 2: The Sound of My Voice
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our three-part series “Voices,” we feature an exciting new voice in the world of sound studies, Stacey Copeland. In part one l...
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Sturtevant's It’s All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2024) is about how c...
Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the 'War on Terror' and beyond, The Story o...
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Amanda Jones, which offers her story of life as ...
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that superhero comics and their related media perpetuate a model of a straight, white, male hero at the expense of representing women...
Anne B. Rodrick, "Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, cities and towns across England used the popular le...
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Nick Butler explores humour's complex and often controversial role in shaping modern political discourse, examining how jokes can ch...
The Future of the Political Magazine: A Conversation with Ramesh Ponnuru
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Madison’s Notes, we welcome Ramesh Ponnuru, renowned journalist and Editor of National Review. In this episode, we dive into his jour...
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song (Intellect, 2024) tells the history of New York City in song across a variety of ...
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or vide...
The World According to Sound
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The World According to Sound is the brainchild of two rogue audionauts who rebelled against the NPR mothership: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett. It beg...
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is...
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in...
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual...
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death...
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, an...
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversa...
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aestheti...
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha...
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest gr...
Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in 1995, and has since donated over $3.5 million to...
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histo...
Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elia Powers' book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality (Rutgers UP, 2024) explores how journalists from historically...
Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Anthony Cond
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo...
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit...
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval pr...