New Books Network

Hannah Frydman, "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France" (Cornell UP, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France (Cornell UP, 2025) by Dr. Hannah Frydman r...

Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2024)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is an unabridged bilingual, fully annotated edition of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic poem The Wretch. This mid-century epic reflects the many hist...

John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the t...

Machiya, Seikatsu Bunka, and Changing Domestic Culture in the Japanese Urban Environment

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kyoto is known as a pinnacle of Japanese history and culture, drawing visitors of more than double its resident population many times over every year....

Chaim Gingold, "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" (MIT Press, 2024)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made: SimCity. As auth...

Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An analysis of advances in military technology that illustrates the importance of organizational flexibility in both an attacker’s innovations and a...

Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jana Byars meets one of her academic heroes when Ulinka Rublack joins her to talk about Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Soci...

Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophers.How do we understand the world and our place in ...

Aubrey Gabel, "The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and condi...

Somia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With stunning lyricism, Somia Sadiq's Gajarah (GFB, 2025) tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds-Pakistan and Canada-whose lif...

James Redfield, "Adventures of Rabah and Friends: The Talmud's Strange Tales and Their Readers" (Brown Judaic Studies, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adventures of Rabbah & Friends offers a new reader-centered approach to some of the Talmud’s most challenging stories. The Talmud contains about tw...

Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy (Temple UP, 2025) by Dr. Mirya Holman explicates the purpose, role, and ...

Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Land Trap (Portfolio / Penguin), Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influe...

Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings ...

Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode (Wayne State UP, 2025), scholar Michelle Anya Anjirbag examines Disney's method of fai...

Inside Jobs: How Great Powers Meddle in Other Countries’ Elections

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Argentina’s recent vote under the shadow of a threatened $20 billion U.S. aid package to Russia’s covert operations in the 2016 U.S. election...

Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A radical history of England, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion, 2025) by Dr. Katrina Navickas is a grip...

Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The media and creative industries thrive on passion, but that passion often comes at a cost. Behind the glamour of journalism, filmmaking, games, musi...

Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates th...

Inside Jobs: How Great Powers Meddle in Other Countries’ Elections

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Argentina’s recent vote under the shadow of a threatened $20 billion U.S. aid package to Russia’s covert operations in the 2016 U.S. election...

Camesia O. Matthews, "The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Total Body Health and Elevates Performance" (Playbook Scholars, 2025)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to move beyond routine dental checkups and unlock your body’s full potential? In The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances T...

Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View (Astra House, 2025) by Edward McPherson is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial p...

Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli eds., "Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection Food, Culture and Society in India: Socia...

Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?  Brought to you by the BISA...

Liang Qichao, "Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World" (Penguin Classics, 2023)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World (Penguin Classics, 2023) brings together a newly translated selection of pre-...

Dr. Michael Uebler on Reimaging Equanimity

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Uebel is a psychotherapist and researcher currently based in Austin, Texas. He is recognized as a pioneer in applying psychological insights t...

Susan Weingarten, "Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?" (Taylor & Francis, 2025

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds? (Taylor & Francis, 2025) is the first in-depth...

Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism ...

Melissa Byrnes, "Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“A lot of things become possible when [the nation state] is not the only framework,” Melissa Byrnes reminds us in this deeply intimate local histo...

Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law...

Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England...

Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liberalism may feel as though it has been around forever - as the "dominant ideology of the modern west" - but not even its advocates and detractors c...

Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liberalism may feel as though it has been around forever - as the "dominant ideology of the modern west" - but not even its advocates and detractors c...

Radio ReOrient 13.9: “Everyday Islamophobia,” with Peter Hopkins, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Amina Easat Daas and Claudia Radiven were in conversation with Peter Hopkins to discuss his work and most recent book, Everyday Islam...

Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Edinburgh UP, 2025) by Dr. Julian Schmid considers ho...

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious figures, and s...

S.J. Bennett, "The Queen Who Came in from the Cold" (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amateur detectives come in many forms. Owning a bookstore or a bakery, running a charming country inn, working in a library—even owning a cat or a d...

Talking Thai Politics: China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How has China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed itself into one of the most assertive diplomatic actors on the global stage? What explains t...

Samuel Moore, "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Dr. Samuel Moore about his recent book, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons, (U Michigan Press, 2025) Samue...

Black Beryl: Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Nick Canby, visiting assistant professor at Brown University and a clinical psychologist specializing in meditation ...

Kathryn Chelminski, "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the world moves with increasing urgency to mitigate climate change and catalyze energy transitions to net zero, understanding the governance mechan...

Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire . . . In fewe...

Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological supp...

Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the sun sets, things start to get interesting among wild animals. Wherever we live, whether in the city or suburbs or country, darkness conjures ...

Rob Holmes et. al., "Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making" (Applied Research & Design, 2023)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to t...

René Esparza, "From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS" (UNC Press, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormativ...

Christopher Key Chapple, "Embodied Ecology: Yoga and the Environment" (Mandala Publishing, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Embodied Ecology: Yoga and the Environment (Mandala Publishing, 2025), Hindu Studies scholar Christopher Key Chapple explores how Hindu and Y...

James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" (Freegovinfo Press, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're pleased to welcome James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, authors of Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future (FreeGovInfo ...

Yael Leibowitz, "Ezra-Nehemiah: Retrograde Revolution" (Maggid, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ezra-Nehemiah: Retrograde Revolution (Maggid, 2025) takes its readers on a literary tour of an era in which cohesiveness between Jews in Israe...

Andrew Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain In The Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Wave is perhaps the most famous piece of Japanese artwork: a roaring blue wave and three boats on the ocean. And far in the background is M...

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationships...

Renee Lapp Norris, "Opera Parody Songs of Blackface Minstrels (1844–1860)" (A-R Editions, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Minstrelsy is often called the first American popular entertainment form. Minstrel shows presented musical, dance, and entertainment styles that conti...

Jeremy Bernstein 11–2007

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode from the Institute’s vault, we revisit an October 2007 presentation by theoretical physicist and Institute Fellow Jeremy Bernstein o...

YIVO Archives and Library, "100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" (YIVO, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Delve into Jewish history through 100 unique objects from the YIVO Archives and Library with 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institut...

Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt (Oxford UP, 2025) tells the story of Hollywood's role in the shaping of the Rust Belt in t...

Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley" (Harvard UP, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To think through soil is to engage with some of the most critical issues of our time. In addition to its agricultural role in feeding eight billion pe...

Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Becket and His World (Reaktion Books, 2025) explores the turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket, one of the most controversial ...

Jack Wertheimer, "Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life" (NYU Press, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The American Jewish philanthropic enterprise is unparalleled in scope, dynamism, and the diversity of funders and the causes they support. Yet even as...

Cindy Williams Schrauben, "Hank's Change of Heart" (The Little Press, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this, our second interview with children's author Cindy Williams Schrauben, we celebrate her new book, Hank's Change of Heart (The Little P...

Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balan...

Benjamin Schneider, "The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution" (Island Press, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution (Island Press, 2025), Benjamin Schneider argues that American city-building is ...

Timothy Gitzen, "Unscripting the Present" (SUNY Press, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Gitzen's Unscripting the Present (SUNY Press, 2025) interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popula...

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, "Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity" (U California Press, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity (U California Press, 2025) is an open access tour-de-force study of the power of...

Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he...

Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Coast has been battered for years by decisions made by those who don’t live there and don’t have any connection to the place. It started earl...

Magda Long et. al., "Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention (Georgetown UP, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Covert action is generally understood as unacknowledged interference by one state in the affairs of another state or non-state actor to affect change....

Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery, "Fela: Music Is the Weapon" (Amistad Press, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powe...

Tina Seelig on Making Your Own Luck and Other Critical Life and Entrepreneurship Skills

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stanford educator and renowned creativity expert Tina Seelig joins Richard Lucas on the New Books Network’s Entrepreneurship & Leadership channel to...

James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Create A More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, ...

Jonathan Eburne, "Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (U Minnesota Press, 2025) is the latest book by scholar Jonathan P. Eburne, J. H. Hexter P...

Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford UP, 2020), Peace A. Medie studies the domestic impl...

Shantala Sriramaiah, "Nitya Prārthanā" (Veda Studies, 2025)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Nitya Prārthanā” and “Nitya Dhyāna” are two profound collections designed to infuse daily life with sacredness. “Nitya Prārthanā” off...

David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people fo...

Wings of Desire

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wings of Desire (1987) is a film that stays with the viewer; part of how it works is to flood the viewer’s mind with images that seem, at first, di...

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town (University of Georgia Press, 2025), Dr. Sylvia Hoffert...

Andrea Flores, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America" (UC Press, 2021)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of Califo...

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This researc...

Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Thomas Haigh, Professor and Chair of History and affiliate of the Department of Computer Science at Univ...

Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring 500 years of protest and resistance in US history—and how its force is foundational and can empower us to navigate our chaotic world In t...

Dainy Bernstein, "Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The culture of mainstream American childhood is vastly different than the culture of Orthodox Jewish childhood - which is itself a rich and varied lan...

Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Caitlin Galway about her short fiction collection, A Song for Wildcats (Dundurn Press, 2025). ...

The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Democracy Dialogues, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Riedl and Esam Boraey speak with Susan C. Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Se...

Dylan Taylor-Lehman, "Going Rackless: Chicago’s Amateur Pool Players and the Quest for Glory in the Biggest Tournament in the World" (3 Fields Books, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Playing every angle for a shot at the big time, Chicagoans venture to area pool halls to perfect their games and navigate league play for a shot at th...

José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez-López, "Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Analyzing dress, costume, and fashion in Puerto Rico, Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens (Bloomsbury, 20...

Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in...

Michal A. Piegzik, "Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan's Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway" (Naval Institute Press, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan's Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway (Naval Instit...

Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand na...

Claire Parnell, "Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2025

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, they encounter authors who started their careers by self-publishing prior ...

J.D. Sargan, "Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography" (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect th...

Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy (U Georgia Press, 2025) by Dr. Beau Clel...

Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m excited to talk to Carlo Rotella today. Carlo is Professor of English at Boston College. His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End...

Éléna Choquette, "Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion" (UBC Press, 2024)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1867, Canada was a small country flanking the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes, but within a few years its claims to sovereignty spanned the cont...

The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (Rutgers UP, 2025) brings together essays that examine reproductive heal...

Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate—and sometime...

Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“When the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a deba...

Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" (Independently Published, 2024)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War (Independently Published, 2024), the author graduates from an eli...

Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What good is aesthetics in a time of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France ...

Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives" (Routledge, 2025)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, New Books Network host Nina Bo Wagner talks to Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh about her new book Journalism and Gender: Global Perspecti...

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked tur...

Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum, "Fight or Flight" (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2023)

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum about his poetry collection, Fight or Flight (Stephen F. Austin State UP, ...