New Books Network
Episodes
European Jews in the 21st Century
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century? How do they maintain vital communities? Do they desire to remain in Europe? To remain Jewish...
Reinvention in an Era of Volatility
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Stokes is a strategist who works with C-Suites and Boards to lead their organizations through AI disruption, climate risk, and geopolitical i...
Charlotte Brooks, "The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution" (U California Press, 2026)
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Moy family—U.S.-born Chinese-American siblings who grow up in the first half of the 20th century—is one that spans the Pacific, c...
Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A woman miscarries and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administers and loses custody of her newborn. Four ...
Alexander Vandewalle, "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first book-length study on mythology reception in video games, Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games (Bloomsbury, 2026) e...
Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if one were to put the Dark Knigh...
Shana Galen, "A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord" (Berkley, 2026)
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Romance novels—especially historical romance novels—thrive on heroes and heroines who don’t match in terms of social class. There must be confli...
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, ha...
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I had the privilege of speaking with writer Samantha Ellis about her deeply moving new book, Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Cu...
Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Th...
Anna Harwell Celenza, "On the Record: Music that Changed America (Norton, 2026)
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is no shortage of books on music and politics, but Anna Harwell Celenza explores an interesting premise in her book On the Record: Music that C...
Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things can only g...
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professor...
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...
Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen, "Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The connections between Hong Kong and Japan began much earlier than most would imagine. Yet, it is only now that the historic Japanese community in Ho...
Great Minds in Despair
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Frank Stahnisch, Professor of the History of Medicine and Health Car...
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti...
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but...
Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join YIVO for a conversation about the resurgence of interest in Jewish identity and history in Lithuania today. Jonathan Brent will moderate a conver...
Jesse Montgomery, "It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story" (UNC Press, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Montgomery joins Michael Stauch to discuss It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (UNC Press, 2026). They examine how young ...
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...
Fredrik Saxegaard, Mia Lövheim, and Geir Afdal eds. "Doctoral Supervision Across Boundaries" (Scandinavian UP, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does doctoral supervision actually look like in contemporary academia? In this NBN episode, Fredrik Saxegaard discusses the open-access book Do...
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 ...
Kimberly McCreight, "Someone Else's Husband" (Knopf, 2026)
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense with her latest novel, Someone Else's Hu...
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergi...
Darren Haber, "Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles Without a Center" (Routledge, 2022)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles Without a Center (Routledge, 2022) explores the compulsions and trauma that und...
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Whittington joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe (Pennsylvania State University ...
Elly Kent, "Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia" (NUS Press, 2022)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia (N...
David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the qu...
Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the New Books Network, we explore Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press, 2026), with anthropologis...
Colin Flahive, "The Galaxy's Last Ride: Shifting Gears in Rural China" (Earnshaw Books, 2026)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Flahive is an American entrepreneur and writer who has spent more than two decades living and running social enterprises in southwestern China...
Blue Jasmine
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Woody Allen has called A Streetcar Named Desire the most well-directed film ever made and its influence on Blue Jasmine (2013) is unmistakable. Bo...
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant “city on a ...
Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Self-Made" success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four c...
Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight ca...
John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things that stood out in my conversation with John Longhurst about his book Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Fai...
Marinus De Jong, "A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder's Ecclesiology" (Brill, 2025)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between the Church and the world has been a subject of debate since the Church's earliest days. In A Church for a Secular World: ...
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra...
Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak, "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" (Disruption Books, 2026)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extr...
Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the...
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Historians began writing the history of the Holocaust in Yiddish from a distinctly Jewish perspective in the years immediately after World War II. The...
The Legacy of Chaim Grade
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chaim Grade was born in 1910 in Vilna, Poland. In his youth, Grade was a student of the Novaredok Musar Yeshiva and of Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz. He wa...
Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthet...
Philippe Huneman, "When Metaphysics Meets Biology: Kantian Approaches to the Concept of An Organism" (Routledge, 2026)
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Central to modern biology and the study of life is the concept of the organism—roughly, a body with interconnected parts that make specific contri...
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how ...
Justin C. Key, "The Hospital at the End of the World: A Novel" (Harper, 2026)
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From author Justin C. Key comes The Hospital at the End of the World: A Novel (Harper, 2026), set in a near future where artificial intelligenc...
An Interview with Rachel Orr
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Orr is celebrating her nineteenth year at Prospect Agency, where she represents both authors and illustrators in projects ranging from board b...
Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Walt Whitman’s outrage at American politics and politicians was surpassed only by his passionate faith in democracy’s future. Both his anger and...
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...
How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work? with WeBuyBooks Co-Founder Mike Lane
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Mike Lane, Managing Director and co-founder of WeBuyBooks about the economics of the second-hand book business. WeBuyBooks i...
Stephen Spector, "God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis" (Jewish Publication Society, 2026)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the book of Genesis is not only the story of humanity’s first family, but also the story of God learning how to parent? In this episode, R...
Laurie D. Graham, "Calling It Back to Me: Poems" (Random House, 2026)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews acclaimed poet Laurie D. Graham about her new book of poetry, Calling it Back to Me (McClelland ...
Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How do...
Radio ReOrient Season 14 Round Up, hosted by Saeed Khan, Amina Easat-Daas, Marchella Ward and Claudia Radiven
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Saeed Khan, Amina Easat Daas, Chella Ward and Claudia Radiven sit down for a round up of the season’s dynamic episodes, and take a ...
Ro Skelton, "“Naow’s Boutique” (Fall, 2025)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ro Skelton speaks to Emily Everett about her essay “Naow’s Boutique,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. The essay explores Ro’s ti...
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for supr...
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still under...
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries. Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a...
Jeffrey R. Di Leo et al. eds., "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? Theory as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 20...
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India" (Oxford UP, 2026)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India (Oxford UP, 2026) explores the role of languages in the inte...
Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Strai...
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 ...
Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Karine Premont and Christopher Devine have a new edited volume focusing on the American Vice Presidency and analyzing not just the office and the o...
Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of s...
Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,...
Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7: A Novel" (Graywolf Press 2026)
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Well, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows...
Helping Companies Foster Agility
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in San Diego, Charles Snow held a variety of jobs early in life, including: paperboy, grocery store cashier, accounting clerk, chauffe...
“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
John Quincy Adams was the great visionary of America’s post-founding era, a writer and orator of consummate skill who reframed the origins and princ...
Jaime Forsythe, "Yield" (Buckrider Books, 2026)
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In her third collection, Nova Scotian poet Jaime Forsythe has created an elegant long poem with Yield (Buckrider Books, 2026). In these drea...
Justin F Jackson, "The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines" (UNC Press, 2025)
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, i...
Islam in English
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious ...
Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
John Dewey is among history’s most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a ph...
Cape Fear Retells an Archetypal Revenge Story for a New Generation
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and today we analyze the new TV series Cape Fear. First we give a reaction to episodes 1 & 2 of the series, and the...
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In At...
Michael Staudenmaier, "White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago" (UNC Press, 2026)
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Independent historian Michael Staudenmaier joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book about “becoming Puerto Rican” in Chicago. Staudenmaier’...
Kyra Davis Lurie, "The Great Mann" (Crown, 2025)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite’s invitation to t...
Tania Sengupta and Stuart King eds., "Reclaiming Colonial Architecture" (Routledge, 2024)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture (Routledge, 2024) explores the built inheritance of colonialism and considers how architects, heritage practition...
Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7" (Graywolf Press 2026)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With thanks to “forever” plastics, the earth has reverted to sand and dust. Dylan has been raised by her scientist mother, in a pod under the sea,...
Christopher D. Stanley, "A Ram for Mars" (NFB Publishing, 2026)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you were pressured to support a rebellion that you believed was misguided and doomed to failure? What if the safety of your fam...
Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness? In Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europ...
Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death" (Yale UP, 2025)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our usua...
Michael Dillon, "Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City" (Yale UP, 2026)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city h...
Understanding Themistocles: A Discussion with Author Michael Scott
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Themistocles is one of the great personages of ancient Athens, known for his heroics in warfare as well as for his overweening and ultimately tragic a...
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...
Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance...
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anniversaries provide opportunities to take stock and reflect. It is now ten years since voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots in a referend...
Terese Mason Pierre, "As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories" (Spiderline, 2025)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with editor, poet, and author, Terese Mason Pierre about As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculat...
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Prachi and Ram, organizers with Savera, a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans ...
Andrea Gunraj, "Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Reclaimed Present" (McClelland & Stewart, 2026)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Andrea Gunraj about her collection of essays, Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Rec...
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How queer men in Kazakhstan navigate dating apps in a context of stigma, surveillance, and limited legal protections. It shows how platforms like Grin...
Javier Arbona-Homar, "Explosivity: Following What Remains" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity: Following What Remains (U Minnesota Press, 2025) unearths the hidden legac...
Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant...
Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUNY Press, 2026)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change (SUNY Press, 2026), edited by Bruce Dearstyne and published by SUNY Press, examines what the volu...
Susanna Drake, "Veiling in the Late Antique World" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Veiling meant many things to the ancients. On women, veils could signify virtue, beauty, piety, self-control, and status. On men, covering the head co...
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become ...
Stephen C.E. Hopkins, "Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea" (Manchester UP, 2026)
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of e...
Robert Jason Grant, "Understanding Sensory Differences: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens" (2022)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Children and teens who experience sensory differences often find it difficult to understand their sensory system and sensory/regulation needs they may...
Ben Brabyn: Entrepreneur and Community Builder
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the New Books Network’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership channel features Richard Lucas in conversation with entrepreneur and communi...
Kristian Williams, "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kristian Williams, longtime activist and writer, joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, fro...
Joshua Comaroff, "Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic pow...