New Books Network
Episodes
Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Haman, infamous as the antagonist in the book of Esther, appears as a villainous figure in virtually all varieties of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and th...
161 One Battle After Another: A West Newton Cinema Discussion with Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren (JP)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One Battle After Another, the spirited and controversial Oscar contender from Paul Thomas Anderson, premiered in September. That opening weekend feat...
Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen, "The Serpent’s Tale: Kundalini, Yoga, and the History of an Experience" (Columbia UP, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Serpent’s Tale: Kundalini, Yoga, and the History of an Experience (Columbia UP, 2025) traces the intricate global histories of Kuṇḍa...
Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social produ...
Francis Gavin, "Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy" (Yale UP, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his timely, thought-provoking book Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy (Yale UP, 2025), Francis Gavin makes a powerful cas...
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Assassins and the Templars. Two groups that are now part of popular legend–and not just because of Assassin’s Creed, the massive video game ...
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The City and the Hospital (Chicago 2023) focuses on an urban paradox: American hospitals are imagined as sites of healing and care, and yet the peopl...
Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato—indigenous to the Americas—had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egyptian cuis...
Elliott Kalan, "Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense, Elliott Kalan (U Chicago Press, 2025) explains that it’s easier to write jokes when you ...
Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley Borougerdi joins Jana Byars to talk about Cannabis: A Global History (Reaktion, 2025). An international cultural history of the multifuncti...
Rayanne Haines, "What Kind of Daughter" (Frontenac House Press, 2024)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews acclaimed Alberta poet Rayanne Haines about her book, What Kind of Daughter (Frontenac House Pre...
Jennifer Conrad on Teaching Through Picture Book Appreciation
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have never spoken to anyone like Jennifer Conrad who teaches literature to her senior high school students through picture book appreciation. In our...
Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinia...
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regim...
Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A thrilling tour of Earth that shows the search for extraterrestrial life starts in our own backyard.Is there life off Earth? Bound by the limitations...
Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around the premise that the West possessed progressive characterist...
Elizabeth Chika Tippett, "The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace" (U California Press, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The field of employment law used to be called "master-servant law." Even if this term has fallen out of favor, a central truth has not changed: modern...
Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebind combines reading with AI-chat to deepen learning and simulate the experience of conversing with some of the greatest scholars and thinkers. Wit...
Joseph Harley and Vicky Holmes eds., "Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Harley joins Jana Byars to talk about the book he edited with Vicky Holmes, Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 (Blooms...
Jacob Daniels, "The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders" (Stanford UP, 2025)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne P...
Matt Houlbrook, "Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London" (Manchester UP, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has central London changed in the last 100 years? In Songs of Seven Dials An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London (Manchester UP, 2025)...
Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Joe Williams speaks to historian Anne Irfan about her new book, A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Drawing...
Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In my interview with Jimmy Wales, father of Wikipedia, we celebrate his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last...
Anna Nyburg and Charmian Brinson eds., "Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering" (Brill, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering (Brill, 2025) is a book in German Studies that explores the intricacies and ...
Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, t...
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (C...
Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderla...
Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the J...
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard UP, 2023) is a rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose meas...
Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting i...
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth ce...
Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2024)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This important new work, Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2023) by Stephen Murphy...
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a majo...
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and dem...
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebr...
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his g...
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books,...
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, ...
Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. ...
Charles Higham, "Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations" (NUS Press, 2024)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2025 the Dutch government announced that it would return to Indonesia the fossilized remains of the famous ‘Java Man’, the first know...
Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022), a brea...
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up t...
Michael McCulloch, "Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit" (Temple UP, 2023)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped ...
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although it...
Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the...
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk...
Patrick Gamsby, "Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy and Modernity" (Routledge, 2025)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Henri Lefebvre is a writer who has had many competing claims for ownership, from sociology to philosophy to urban geography, different scholars have a...
Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Anne Simpson joins Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2025). The book e...
Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North a...
Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or...
Nancy McWilliams, "Psychoanalytic Supervision" (Guilford Publications, 2021)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervis...
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stefania Marghitu's Teen TV (Routledge, 2021)explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ...
Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag ...
Elisabetta Ferrari, "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies" (U California Press, 2024)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Activists utilize digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. In Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist ...
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that co...
Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michiga...
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism (Stanford UP, 2023), the authors Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramani...
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive ...
Zeenath Khan, "The Sirens of September" (India Penguin, 2025)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September (India Penguin, 2025) shifts be...
Josh Levine, "Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated" (ECW Press, 2025)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levine's Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated (ECW Press, 20...
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand (SUNY Press, 2023) unravels...
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conservatism needs to be rediscovered. That is, it needs to be differentiated from the post WWII concept of liberal democracy and return to its tradit...
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the proces...
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased the...
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumbl...
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah...
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Meg Bernhard about her new book Wine (Bloomsbury, 2023). Agricultural product and cultural commodity, drink of ritual and drink of...
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its formati...
Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon afte...
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor McCall's The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe (Reaktion, 2023) is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustr...
Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talked with Kamran Khan about linguistics, citizenship and belonging. The conversation travelled from...
Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As she taught university-level courses on modern French history, Darcie Fontaine felt like she could not find a textbook that provided an up-to-date n...
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media inc...
Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Yvonne Blomer about her stunning narrative poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, ...
Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marquette University Political Scientist Phil Rocco has a new book focusing on the 2020 U.S. Census and how the states, localities, and federal govern...
Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change...
Natalie Porter, "Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders" (ECW Press, 2025)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A vibrant, meticulously researched celebration of the women and non-binary skateboarders who defied a hostile industry and redefined skateboarding aro...
Conversations with Birds
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America...
Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic often considered to be not just the 'Hindu Bible' but sometimes the 'Indian Bible' as well. Over the last two cen...
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English ...
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (FSG, 2023) is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights ico...
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the p...
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1924, the Al-A‘waj, also known as the Crooked, set sail from Kuwait on a trading journey around the Persian Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz...
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, "Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago" (MIT Press, 2024)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of “conspicuous consumption,” the ostenta...
Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician, enigma in the annals of US history. In Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and t...
Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Treena Orchard about her memoir, Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating ...
Jenny Linford, "Repast: The Story of Food" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our insatiable appetite for creativity in the kitchen – or around the open fire – is reflected in the fascinating array of objects explored in thi...
Radio ReOrient 13.6: “Islamophobia and the ‘Great Replacement’ Conspiracy,” with Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilaran, hosted by Marchella Ward and Hizer Mir
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chella Ward and Hizer Mir sat down with Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar to talk about their recent book on a racist a...
In the Footsteps of St. Thomas (with Bishop Daniel Timotheos): Spreading the Gospel in the Indian Ocean World
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bishop Daniel talks like a Texas Protestant in terms of Church Planting and giving your heart to Christ, but actually he is a bishop in the Orthodox C...
What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2014 more than 32,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. As the EU and its member states have been increasingly...
Lauren E. M. Everett, "Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing" (Temple UP, 2025)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals’ and communities’ lives. Dr. Lauren Everett’s Fortu...
Erika Pani, "Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867" (UNC Press, 2025)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Between the late 1840s and the late 1860s, the United States and Mexico had quite a bit in common. Both suffered from reactionary succession movements...
Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the J...
Sharon White Rewires Disco
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the center of 1970s New York's most iconic clubs—from the celebrity-studded Studio 54 to the premiere lesbian discotheque Sahara—stood a queer ...
Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies’ struggle against Nazism. Often elided, if not simply forgotten, is the Soviet Union’...
Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) t...
Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconside...
Micah S. Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2025)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and ...
Judith M. Lieu "Explorations in the Second Century: Texts, Groups, Ideas, Voices" (Brill, 2025)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Ma...