New Books Network

Jessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practic...

Rizvana Bradley, "Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form" (Stanford UP, 2023)

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford UP, 2023), Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness canno...

Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and at...

Lucy Caplan, "Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera" (Harvard UP, 2025)

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, musicologists and others have started writing about Black participation in opera. Lucy Caplan’s Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists T...

Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to ...

13.5 - John Holmwood

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Professor John Holmwood about the UK’s Prevent policy, part of the Counter Terror Strateg...

Lillian Allen et. al, "Muttertongue: What Is a Word in Utter Space" (Exile Editions, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Gregory Betts, one of the poets behind the collaboration, Muttertongue: what is a word in utt...

David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. In Law...

John Jackson, "Special Advocates in the Adversarial System" (Routledge, 2020)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Special Advocates in the Adversarial System (Routledge, 2020) uncovers the little known phenomenon of Special Advocates who represent the best inte...

Sonia Faleiro, "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia" (Columbia UP, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the robe becomes a weapon, who can stop the violence? We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace—rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence...

David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on...

Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of th...

Carolyn T. Adams et. al, "Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century" (Penn Press, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First...

Basit Kareem Iqbal, "The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution" (Fordham UP, 2025)

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Basit Kareem Iqbal's new book The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution (Fordham UP, 2025) uses ethnographic scenes ...

Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For much of the late 20th century, Japanese business historians were core contributors to the global field. They published, collaborated, and shaped d...

Ronald Angelo Johnson, "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of he...

Craig Hogan, "The Unlikely Primeval Sky" (American Scientist, November-December)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the patterns that could possibly be preserved in the post–Big Bang radiation, the one we see is surprisingly smooth on large angular scales....

Mila Burns, "Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War (UNC Press, 2025) offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilea...

Justin Marozzi, "Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World" (Pegasus Books, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Slavery has been a ubiquitous practice throughout much of world history–and the Muslim world was no exception. Slave soldiers, concubines, and eunuc...

Amy L. Allocco and Xenia Zeiler eds., "Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices" (SUNY Press, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices (SUNY Press, 2025) explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of conte...

Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

State Builders from the Steppe: A History of the First Bulgarian Empire (This is RETHINK, 2025) explores how the Proto-Bulgarians were able to build...

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Humanity’s relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling question: What if t...

Anand P. Vaidya, "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (Cornell UP, 2025)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India (Cornell UP, 2025), Anand P. Vaidya tells the story of the making and unmaking of Indi...

Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals how American capitalism...

Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential bur...

Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan (Universal Publishers, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography on Jordan’s King Abdullah. Drawing o...

Thomas Kador, "Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education" (UCL Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the...

Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is ...

Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paula Bomer is the author of The Stalker (Soho Books, 2025), which received a starred Publisher’s Weekly, calling it “dark and twisted fun”. S...

Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah (de Gruyter, 2025) proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and p...

Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which ende...

Józef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Philosophy of Drama (U Notre Dame Press, 2024), by the Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner (translated by Artur Rosman, University of Notre ...

Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How are influencers changing the arts? In Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture (U Californ...

Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meg Groff's memoir Not If I Can Help It (Rivertown Books, 2025) recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring stories from Groff’...

James Brown's War on Disco

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares sit down with acclaimed historian Alice Echols, autho...

Phillips Payson O'Brien, "War and Power: Who Wins Wars--And Why" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectru...

Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of edu...

Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There was a time when women's health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn't discussed. There was a time when October wasn't pink...

Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Silicon Valley wants to disrupt finance, and it might just succeed. In FinTech Dystopia, professor Hilary Allen offers an accessible, irreverent, and...

Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing conti...

Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Happy New Years (New Vessel Press, 2025), after finishing her teaching degree, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thi...

Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Robert de la Chevrotiere about his novel, Tall is Her Body (Kensington, 2025).  Readers of Black ...

Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neolib...

Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For three years following the Russian Revolution, the small South Caucasian country of Georgia was a democracy, but Stalin later ordered the Red Army ...

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? On Overcoming Colonial and ...

Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the ...

Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections betw...

How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent book...

Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Concetta Principe about her poetry collection, DIsorder (Gordon Hill Press, 2024).  Disorder, t...

The Beast

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt that you keep making the same mistakes or that you have fallen into a pattern that could be Exhibit A as proof of reincarnation? T...

Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peac...

Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be ...

Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the African Union was founded in 2002, it promised to deliver a more united, prosperous, and people-centred continent. Two decades later, Africa’...

In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus. The show posits an extraordinary ...

Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is th...

Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied ...

Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her scintillating new book, The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals (Oxford UP, 2021), Nerina Rustomji presents a fascinating...

Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portugue...

Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Alfred S. Posamentier, a co-author (with Christian Spreitzer) of Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians (Prome...

Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relations...

Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rura...

Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how...

Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communi...

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the c...

Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout the...

Ziggy Hanaor, "Life (As We Know It)" (Cicada Books, 2025)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ziggy Hanaor is the director of Cicada Books, a boutique children’s publishing company. She has also written nine books including Fly Flies, Alex a...

Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (...

Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Jenny Mann, who has a new book titled The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime (Princeton University ...

Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon and Schuster, 2025), Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the...

Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester UP, 2021), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo exp...

E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The protection and restoration of cultural heritage is essential, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones. Armed conflicts frequently result in...

Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and su...

Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. For many civil rights activists, t...

Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: ...

David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Beito's new book brings to bear the latest historical scholarship to shed light on the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Profe...

13.4 - Zumretay Arkin

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chella Ward and Claudia Radiven were in conversation with Zumretay Arkin, discussing the Uyghur genocide in East Turkestan. Zumretay ...

Stephen Yuille ed., "The Works of John Cotton, Volumes 1-5" (Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features Dr. J. Stephen Yuille, Professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Dire...

Naomi Baker, "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Bakes joins Jana Byars to talk about Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025), a book th...

Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play i...

Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs: historically by political forces, cog...

Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: ...

Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature (Routledge, 2025) investigates the gender representations that French children's liter...

Celebrating University Press Week 2025 with President Dennis Lloyd

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every year, NBN speaks with the president of AUPresses in anticipation of University Press Week. This year, press week will take place from November 1...

The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny speaks with Alex Priou, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University...

Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi (UP Mississippi, 2025) chronicles...

Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Into the Leopard’s Den (Pegasus / Hachette India: 2025), the latest novel in the Bangalore Detective Club series by Harini Nagendra, opens with a ...

House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922–1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to...

Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow (sailing vessel), the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around...

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field'...

Stephanie Ellen Sy. "You Can't Tame a Tiger" (OwlKids, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our engaging interview, we celebrate award-wining illustrator Julien Chung's new book, You Can't Tame a Tiger (OwlKids) written by Stephanie Ellen ...

Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve...

Georgios Giannakopoulos, "The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930" (Manchester UP, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Georgios Giannakopoulos, Lecturer in Modern History at City St. George's, University of London, is the author of The Interpreters: British Intern...

David Giuliano, "The Upending of Wendall Forbes" (Latitude 46, 2025)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews David Giuliano about his novel, The Upending of Wendall Forbes (Latitude 46, 2025). Wendall an...

Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two kid...

Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Antiabortion stories, images, and policies have primed Americans to embrace attitudes and politics once deemed extreme. Abroad, US antiabortion tactic...

Strings of Identity: The Horse-Head Fiddle and Mongolian Identity in China (with Ying Song)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we trace how the horse-head fiddle has evolved in the People’s Republic of China — from a traditional steppe instrument to a cult...

Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Watkins joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Trees Ancient and Modern (Reaktion, 2025). This delightful new book explores the relati...

William J. Glover, "Reformatting Agrararian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India" (Stanford UP, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expe...

Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientists Jack Greenberg (Yale University) and John Dearborn (Vanderbilt University) have a new book that focuses on the idea of presidenti...

Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we consider Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska as personal and political document. With the release of ...