New Books Network

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the ...

Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rabbi Professor Shomo Pereira discussed his book "Monuments of Paper and Parchment: Hebrew Printing in Portugal in the Late 15th Century." He explaine...

Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo we...

Suvi Rautio, "The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade" (Springer Nature, 2024)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, anthropologist Professor Anru Lee is joining NBN as a guest host to interview me, Suvi Rautio, on my new book, The Invention of Tradition in ...

Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Caste has been a huge topic of conversation in modern India. Yet debates and activism around caste discrimination have spread beyond South Asia. Caste...

Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious ...

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...

Tracy Pintchman ed., "Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World" (2025)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World"Special Issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies: Volume 29, Issue 2 (A...

Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,...

Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores what China’s subnational climate experiments tell us about the possibilities and limits of climate leadership in an era of int...

Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of ...

Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and con...

Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003,...

Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, "Citifying Jesus: The Making of a Roman Religion in the Roman Empire" (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious stu...

Scott D. Seligman, "The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century, disputes were largely between Protestants and l...

Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change.Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls t...

Pluribus Episodes 6 & 7 Analysis: I Feel Fine!

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 6, “HDP” an episode 7, “The Gap.” L...

Jeremiah Joven Joaquin and James Franklin eds., "The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an open access book ...

Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024) by Dr. Andrea Maraschi & Dr. Francesca Tasca, readers will find st...

Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Witchcraft and witches throughout history have long captured the imagination, yet hidden away in archives are records of long forgotten cases. Many of...

Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. ...

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...

“Look hard enough at anything and you will eventually see everything”: Magic, Tarot, and Creativity with Lon Milo DuQuette & Cassia Elderkin

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we meet Lon Milo DuQuette, who shares his lifelong journey in the Western hermetic and magical traditions, including his initiation i...

David Arnovitz, "Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Deuteronomy" (Koren, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel breathes new life into the biblical narrative by incorporating the latest discoveries from archaeology, Near E...

Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature. Animating the Victorians: D...

Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonies...

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 ...

Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a...

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wednesday, December 17—“The best play I’ve seen this season,” says New York Magazine’s Sara Holdren about Liberation, Bess Wohl’s moving...

Simon Avenell, "A History of Postwar Japan: Recovery, Prosperity, and Transformation" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This sweeping history tells the story of contemporary Japan from its defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in 1945 until the early decades of the new millenn...

Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian" (Verso Books, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than 15 books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote ...

Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is traditional American religion doomed?Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of America...

Ben Wiggershaus, "The Man of Opened Eye: Ancient Near Eastern Revelatory Convention and the Balaam Cycle" (Gorgias Press, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to read the Balaam narrative of Numbers 22-24 cohesively? Ben Wiggershaus says, “Yes,” and part of his solution is in reading the B...

Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode Julia Olsson continues her talk with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano from last episode, and they discuss the issue of overtourism and ...

Radio ReOrient 13.11: Refugees and Sanctuary, with Rosie Tapsfield, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan were in conversation with Rosie Tapsfield, Director of Operations at City of Sanctuary UK. Rosie has b...

The Dead

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.”  That line from James Joyce’s story is heard at the end of John Huston’s...

Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode Julia Olsson continues her talk with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano from last episode, and they discuss the issue of overtourism and ...

Zubeda Jalalzai, "Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Zubeda Jalalzai about her book Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan (...

Suzette van Haaren, "The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Material Approaches to Digital Codicology" (Brill, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging wit...

Johannes Zachhuber, "Gregory of Nyssa: on the Hexaemeron: Text, Translation, and Essays" (Oxford UP, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Marmodoro, eds., Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaemeron: Text, Translation, and Essays (Oxford UP, 2025) This book present...

Hilary Davidson, "A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins? (Yale UP 2025)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins (Yale UP 2025), celebrated dress historian Dr. Hilary Davidson brings ...

Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Dr. Matthew Scobie and Dr. Anna Sturman as t...

Irvin Ibargüen, "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980" (UNC Press, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documen...

Paul Vermeersch, "NMLCT: Poems" (ECW Press, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Paul Vermeersch about his new collection of poetry, NMLCT (ECW Press, 2025). Fables and fairy ...

Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth Move" (Yale UP, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Eisner is a widely published journalist who held leadership positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Forward. She is the author of Taking B...

Judith Jesch, "The Saga of the Earls of Orkney" (Birlinn, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Birlinn, 2025), Professor Judith Jesch presents a fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was establ...

David Elias, "Into the D-Ark" (Radiant Press, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Manitoba author David Elias about his new novel, Into the D/Ark (Radiant Press, 202...

David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by David Fleming, Peabody-nominated correspondent for Meadowlark Media, longtime ESPN senior writer, and author of A Big Mess in ...

Molly-Claire Gillett, "Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following the career of the Irish lace designer and inspector Emily Anderson (1856-1948), Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice (Blo...

Caitlin Schroering, "Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing" (Manchester UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) to en...

Deanna Ferree Womack, "Re-Inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia" (Oxford UP, 2025)

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the end of the American Civil War to the start of World War II, the Protestant missionary movement unintentionally tilled the soil in which Ameri...

Knight, Monk, King, Prophet (Juan Domínguez)

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before the Scientific Revolution, Western medicine was thought in terms of humors: cheerful people were sanguine and had a lot of blood, fiery choleri...

Arthur Bahr, "Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthu...

Nathan McGovern, "Seeing Through Religion: An Introduction to the Study of Religion and Religions" (Routledge, 2025)

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing Through Religion is a cutting-edge textbook that gives students the tools to learn this valuable subject theoretically, McGovern argues that r...

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 ...

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...

Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025)

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region (Routledge, 2025) edited by Dr. Joanna Siekiera uses an interdiscip...

Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features a conversation with the inspiring Dr. Veronica House, whose book Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impac...

Integral Perspectives: From Kashmiri Shaivism to Tibetan Buddhism with Sean K. MacCracken

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Sean MacCracken reflects on his experience at the American Academy of Religion, noticing a shift toward more participatory, contempla...

Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-sellin...

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...

Max Brzezinski, "Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen" (Duke UP, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for...

Radio ReOrient 13.10: Countering Islamophobia with the Runnymede Trust, with Shabna Begum, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Amina Easat Daas and Claudia Radiven were in conversation with Shabna Begum to discuss her work with the Runnymede Trust, a British r...

Jeffrey Kroessler, "Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens" (Rutgers UP, 2025) This

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The borough of Queens is the largest of New York City’s five boroughs. It holds more people than Chicago or Los Angeles. And thanks to immigratio...

Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Tim Bouverie, the renowned author of the very well received Appeasement, gives us another brilliant history Allies at War: How the Str...

Jennifer Acker “On 15 Years of The Common” (The Common, Fall 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Acker, founder and editor in chief of The Common, speaks to Emily Everett about her essay “On 15 Years of The Common,” which appears i...

Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell UP, 2025), Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of inter...

Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Waka poetry was all the rage in tenth-century, courtly Japan. Every educated person composed it, emperors and consorts sponsored it, and societal int...

Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or brief anecdotes, the real story of displacement unfol...

Jennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From canoes on the beach at Dzidzilalich to steamships and piers, Seattle's waterfront was the center of the city's economy and culture for generation...

Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes and dignitaries of Europe. Europ...

Sharon Sliwinski, "An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed" (MIT Press, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed (MIT Press, 2025) b...

Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas...

Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Xi Zhongxun’s career spanned the entirety of China’s modern history. Born just two years after the 1911revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty,...

Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) argues that women activists, wage worke...

Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Among the most common challenges on college campuses today is figuring out how to navigate our politically charged culture and engage productively wit...

Thomas Gidney, "An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, a...

Shiben Banerji, "Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy" (U Texas Press, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties...

Purana Media: Past, Present, Future - A Discussion with Elizabeth A. Cecil and Peter C. Bisschop

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

PURANA Media is an annual, peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on modes of cultural production encompassed by the term purāṇa (a Sanskrit...

162 Carlo Rotella's Books in Dark Times (JP)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For our Pandemic-era Books in Dark Times series, RTB spoke in 2020 with Carlo Rotella of Boston College. Rotella is the author of such gems as Goo...

Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girl...

Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton U...

Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brad Smith about his new novel, Billy Crawford's Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).  Everythi...

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and po...

Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi to talk about their edited volume, Replaying Communism:...

Pierre D'Alancaisez and Amir Naaman, "Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual" (Verdurin, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With contributions by Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d'Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, ...

Peter Mancina, "On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State" (NYU Press, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like ...

Jonathan Baillie Strong: Community Enabler and Podcast Producer

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, we hear about how Jonathan transitioned from a corporate career, through digital nomading, to becoming a podcast producer and co...

Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline, "Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1" (Brill, 2027)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prayer in the Ancient World is the resource on prayer in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. With over 350 entries it showcases a robust selecti...

Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by S...

Yossi Yovel, "The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats ...

David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those who fought it and their loved ones at home...

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 ...

Militarization and Democracy in Contemporary Brazil

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does militarization threaten contemporary democracies? Why is Brazil’s case significant for understanding the causes and consequences of militar...

Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? W...

Yan-ho Lai, "Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Senior Fellow at the Centre for Asian Law, University of Georgetown, Dr Yan-ho Lai (Eric) about his book, Legal Resistance under...

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 ...

Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or ...

Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (U California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, a former hedge fund worker takes an ethno...

Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds., "Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History and Representation" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European h...