New Books Network

Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals lookin...

Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives...

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Thief and The Insider

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and in this show we start a series on the films of Michael Mann. Structured as a knock-out tournament, we set his e...

Alistair Moffat, "Edinburgh: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witness...

Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and ...

Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 (UNC Press, 20...

Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks with Erik Baker about the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic. The dominant work ethic of our current moment, ...

Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo...

A Star Is Born (1937)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A Star Is Born has been filmed four times, but the first version is the best: a combination of Singin’ in the Rain and Death of a Salesman, D...

Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston c...

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern its moti...

Manuel Iris, "The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on ar...

Jake Nabel, "The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations" (U California Press, 2025)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this  (open...

Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With his fake beard, putty nose, and thick Yiddish accent, the “stage Jew” was once a common character in vaudeville, part of a genre that mock...

E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method...

Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroel...

Georgios Boudalis, "On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean" (Legacy Press, 2022)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean by Dr Giorgios Boudalis (Legacy Press, 2022). The term endbands de...

Foster Chamberlin, "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War" (Louisiana State UP, 2025)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War (Louisiana State UP, 2025), Foster Chamberlin evaluates the r...

Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been decorated in ...

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in ...

Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz refram...

John Oakes, "The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without" (Avid Reader, 2024)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice—es...

Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompas...

Suzanne Bost, "Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities" (U Minnesota Press)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th...

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a d...

William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic" (Lexington, 2018)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit o...

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley (Manchester University Press, 2025) is a cutting-edge history of wind power in...

Jonathan Sherry, "Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War (Liverpool University Press, 2025) is a history of Communism and anti-...

Michael Kimmel, "Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” In 1902, Morris and Ros...

Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would r...

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between ...

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2025), Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservati...

Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026) 

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Giant companies, launch rockets into space, control satellite communication and develop era-defining AI technologies. But they are also seen as promot...

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un...

Fatimah Williams, "Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter" (Oxford UP, 2025)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a tra...

Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Conor Mc Donnell about his long poem, What We Know So Far Is...(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). The Irish...

Teresa Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the...

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a da...

10.1 "Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions:” Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Gwyn is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynn’s War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All God...

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters (Harvard UP, 2026) is a grou...

An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The YIVO Institute was pleased to present a special evening with acclaimed novelist Philip Roth. Roth read excerpts from his new novel, Nemesis (201...

Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics, (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), traces the rise of Black...

Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Manuela Ceballos’ new book Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean (University of Californi...

Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Roman theatre" is a term often used to describe the theatre of ancient Italy during the second and third century BCE. Plautus and Terence are referre...

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six dec...

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered di...

Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From Aztec sun stones to satellite launches, from muralist visions to dark sky parks, Mexico's engagement with outer space is fundamental to its ident...

Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent (Princ...

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid incr...

Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Borneo—split between two countries, home to some of the world’s oldest rainforests and a vast array of animal and plant life—is back in the news...

Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a da...

Imperial Depths: Mark Letteney and Matthew Larsen on the Roman Prison system (JP)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without t...

Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Eleven days into the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, starting on Feb. 28, 2026, I speak with Vali Nasr, a renowned analyst of Iran. He...

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton Un...

Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters and citizens...

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid incr...

Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that populate t...

Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they...

The Augustan Revolution: On Ancient Rome with Reece Edmends

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this second episode of Season 5, I interview Dr. Reece Edmends, a graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, and a junior faculty member in the Clas...

Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution (U Chicago Press, 2026), Dr. Michael Bycroft argues that gems were connec...

Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis,...

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the Engli...

Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement (Oxford UP, 2024) is a close-to-the-ground, ethnographic narrative o...

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...

Carlin Wing, "Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play" (MIT Press, 2026)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play (MIT Press, 2026) follows an array of bouncing balls through the histories of nonelectronic and e...

April Reynolds, "The Shape of Dreams" (Random House, 2026)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Shape of Dreams (Random House, 2026) April Reynolds introduces readers to a trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek...

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across...

Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak, "Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India" (Routledge, 2025)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the New Books Network, I sat down with the contributors of Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and I...

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...

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...

Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2026), philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most domina...

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud present the latest research on the global history of multinationals and their impact on society and the environmen...

Caroline Sharples, "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History" (Yale UP, 2026)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated aro...

Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How and why do leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban not only come to power, but remain in power for so long (in Orban’s case 16 years)? And why doe...

George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. George Frazier is currently an assistant professor of Computer Information Sciences at Washburn University, where his research focuses on such top...

Joe Mungo Reed, "Terrestrial History" (Norton, 2025)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Mungo Reed is the author of the novels Hammer and We Begin Our Ascent, one of the best novels about sport that I’ve ever read. He Teaches cre...

Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound imp...

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...

Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago, Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast...

Kaitlin Tremblay, "Life is Strange" (Boss Fight Books, 2026)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Despite its time travel mechanics, high stakes, and pulpy murder plot, Don’t Nod Entertainment’s 2015 adventure game Life is Strange stood ou...

Daneesh Majid, "The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day" (Harper Collins, 2025)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telan...

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...

Joshua Berman, "Echoes of Egypt: A Haggada" (Koren, 2026)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“In every generation a person must see himself as if he himself came out of Egypt.” Mishna Pesachim 10:5 Now, Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman’s new w...

The 4th Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The 4th International Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference convenes 27–29 May 2026 at EHESS Paris, organized by CESAH. Theme: Authenticity, Author...

Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by ...

Charles Delgadillo and James Stacey, eds., "Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town" (UP of Kansas, 2026)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality...

Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate...

Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We are glad to talk to Britt Paris about her book Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up (U California Press, 2025). ...

The Tree of Life (Bryan Zahnd)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“The movie is a prayer,” says Bryan Zahnd, about Terrence Mallick’s 2011 The Tree of Life, his favorite movie of all time. Bryan has seen it fo...

Karen Dubinsky, "Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters" (Between the Lines, 2025)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters (Between the Lines, 2025) delves into the rich, often overlooked history of persona...

Karen Kohn, "Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to design...

Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A provocative new history of modern black liberalism Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025...

K.R. Wilson, "Stan on Guard" (Guernica Editions, 2026)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with K.R. Wilson about his novel, Stan on Guard (Guernica Editions, 2026). Ishtanu (call him Stan) ...

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Autho...

Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its ...

Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship...

Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of...

Nick Coutts - Portugal’s Leading Fitness/Health Centre Entrepreneur

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Richard Lucas on Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Richard speaks with Nick Coutts — a visionary entrepreneur who reshaped Portug...

Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever wondered where your wheat flour is coming from, who is milling it (and how), or how it came to be such an important staple, then this...

Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

February 24—Following a screening of the documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry during the weekend of Feb. 20–22, 2026, filmmaker L...