New Books Network
Episodes
Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Routledge, 2026) examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars fr...
Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years" (U California Press, 2026)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor...
Annie Selak, "The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm within Catholicism" (Fordham UP, 2026)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Annie Selak (she/her/hers) is an expert in feminist ecclesiology. She studies wounds in the church, or moments where the church fails to live into...
Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The study of French science fiction – even in France – remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to g...
Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969 (UCL Press, 2026) is a global history project that examines the diffus...
Eileen Otis, "Walmart: Made in China" (Stanford UP, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Walmart: Made in China (Stanford University Press, 2026) by Dr. Eileen Otis tells the story of Walmart's expansion in China, making the case that it...
Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood w...
Robert W. Snyder, "When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers" (Cornell UP, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered its first and most devastating strike in the United States in New York City in the Spring of 2020. Closely connected t...
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference. Ch...
Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known...
Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational...
Jane Kanarek, "Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah (Brandeis University Press, 2025) draws on feminist analysis and gender studies t...
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) sheds a new light on the ...
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily liv...
Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually getting them? In The Life You Want Adam Phillips u...
Lewis Ryder, "Connoisseurs and conmen: The contest for cultural authority in early twentieth-century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2026)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Connoisseurs and conmen: The contest for cultural authority in early twentieth-century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2026) by Dr. Lewis Ryder...
Radio ReOrient S14:10: Muslims in the Neoliberal Era, with William Barylo, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Amina Easat-Daas
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode hosts Salman Sayyid and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by William Barylo to discuss his most recent book ‘Muslims in the Neoliberal Er...
Witold J. Henisz, "Geostrategy by Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How should executives position a company for growth when the geopolitical future is so uncertain? Recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East and t...
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty" (Duke UP, 2025)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty (Duke UP, 2025), Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sove...
Bruno Shirley, "Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shirley's monograph, Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215 (ARC Humanities ...
In Search of Trustworthy AI
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Hatkoff has spent four decades at the intersection of innovation, culture-building, and institutional transformation. He pioneered commercial mo...
Navigating Landmines at Work: Differences Can Create Value
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Susan MacKenty Brady is a leadership educator, executive coach, bestselling author, and the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclu...
Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh bring into English for the first time a long-inaccessible masterpiece of South Asian literature Baidehisha Bilasa...
Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 (U South Carolina Press, 2026), Dr. Mollie ...
David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Cunningham joins John to speak about his pathbreaking article about visiting each of the 113 communities that removed or relocated Confederat...
Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Iran is, once again, in global headlines, following U.S. strikes on the country earlier this year. Operation Epic Fury, as the Department of Defense c...
Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this illuminating conversation with librarian-author Mary R. Lanni, we celebrate her brand new book, Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: The...
Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the traditi...
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM emplo...
What Is Real Transformations’ Mission?
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Transformation is hard. To be successful, it has to be human. That’s what Julie Anixter and Dan Hill mean by Business Change that Works from the Ins...
A Divine Comedy: On Hollywood, Creativity, and Religion with Rob Long
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here in Episode 9 of Season 5, I interview Mr. Rob Long. A longtime Hollywood professional, he was a writer and producer for the classic sitcom Che...
Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, Bri...
Rivka Weinberg, "The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time" (Oxford UP, 2026)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Almost every ...
Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If governments provide financial support for affordable housing, should they provide support for inhabitants directly, or rather for the construction ...
Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi, "The Vision of the Firm" (West Academic Publishing, 2025)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Vision of the Firm (West Academic Publishing, 2025) provides a complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics today. It aims ...
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law ha...
Romani Grassroots Language Learning
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Ca...
Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China—right at the very end of the empire? In The Mak...
Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertion...
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not on...
Kati Curts, "Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America" (NYU Press, 2025)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the “gospel of reincarnat...
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociologists, or...
For All Mankind Concludes Its Search For New Life
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and we conclude our analysis of season 5 of For All Mankind with a discussion of the finale, “This Land Is Our La...
On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wide ranging interview with Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II, Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies, the University of Miami. Interview exp...
Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the f...
Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Concept of Emotional Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2025) is a philosophical and academic exploration of how society determines whether emot...
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was ...
Martha Conway, "We Meet Apart" (Regal House Publishing, 2026)
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1940 and Gaby’s parents and sister succumb to Typhus after staying in France to care for Gaby and Sabine’s dying grandmother. The war is in...
Helen Veit, "Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History" (St Martin's Press, 2026)
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are children naturally picky? It sure seems that way. Yet, amazingly, pickiness used to be almost nonexistent. Well into the 20th century, Americans s...
Homes of the Past
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the U...
Many Cultures, One Hope: Cultural Competence in the Uniting Church with guest Reverend Seforosa Carroll
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Cultural Competence Collective, we speak with academic theologian and Uniting Church ordained minister Rev Dr Seforosa Caroll...
Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political tran...
The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Populism with Iain Quinn
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wi...
Mackenzi Lee, "Masters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos" (Mattel, 2026)
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mackenzi Lee's Masters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos (Mattel, 2026) is a young adult tie-in for the Masters of the Universe (2026)...
Kenna Neitch, "A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism" (SUNY Press, 2026)
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism (SUNY Press, 2026) by Dr. Kenna Neitch establishes persistence ...
Sierra Bainbridge and James Kitchin, "Seeking Abundance: Design, Ecology and a Flourishing Planet" (Axio, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improv...
Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Talking culturally responsive teaching with Dr Remy Low
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by educator and researcher Associate Professor Remy Low to explore what cultural competence and cultura...
Joanna Dee Das, "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Mi...
Chloe Chapin, "Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men" (Oxford UP, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the Foundin...
Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1806, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return from their journey—having led the Corps of Discovery across eight thousand miles of rapids,...
David Petruccelli, "A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of t...
Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age" (Bristol UP, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its origins...
Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis of the ch...
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without be...
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reade...
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jeffer...
Andrew Demshuk, "The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2026) traces how a community shroud...
Charlie Qiuli Xue and Arwen Yingting Chen, "American-Designed Shopping Malls in China" (Hong Kong UP, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China’s remarkable journey from poverty to becoming the world’s second-largest economic power is marked by extraordinary urban growth and consumpt...
Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell, "Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration" (U California Press, 2026)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Art-Science Undisciplined invites us into a collaborative journey grounded in mutual exploration and transformation. Moving beyond transactional exch...
Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than any single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global financial markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rat...
Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge ...
“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of The Cultural Competence Collective podcast! For our first episode, we are joined by the multi-talented actress, mus...
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures. I...
Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has a special place in the history of struggle for a Fair Day's Work. In giving a history of Australian worker struggles over the length of...
Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Names are incredibly powerful things and are a crucial part of the way we see and classify the world around us. Plant names are especially fascinating...
Radio ReOrient 14:9: Racializing the Ummah, with Rhea Rahman, hosted by Saeed Khan and Claudia Radiven
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan were in conversation with Rhea Rahman to discuss her new book ‘Racializing the Ummah - Muslim Humani...
Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echo...
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sh. An-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, 1863-1920) was a writer in Russian and Yiddish, a revolutionary, a wartime relief worker, and an ethnographer who...
Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play (Hart Publishing, 2026) uncovers how video game contracts act as monologues of power, mouldin...
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Democracy Dialogues, Maya Tudor speaks with two keen observers of Indian politics, Gilles Verniers and Yamini Aiyar, about what India...
Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrig...
Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A compelling and inventive memoir exploring how pain and pleasure are passed down through generations of women For years, Lauren W. Westerfield lo...
Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is known for his outfits. Since rising to become India’s head of government in 2014, photographers and jour...
Frances Kneupper, "Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400" (Oxford UP, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to...
The Instigators
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Black women have always been the most relentless instigators for change—building a democracy for all. In The Instigators: How Black Women Have Bee...
Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black (Temple University Press, 2026), Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy ...
Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connecti...
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in ...
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development" (Routledge, 2026)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development (Routledge, 2026) is a recollection of the McCartney's journey ac...
Chunmei Du, "Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians in the Aftermath of World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chunmei Du is an Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of modern China, specific...
Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical c...
Barnaby B. Barratt, "Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2026)
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2026), Barnaby Barratt presents a compelling and much-needed exploration of th...
Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine with Louise Brogan
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if in the age of AI generated content, the most important part of being visible online is just being a human? In this episode of The Publishing P...
David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and playWhen outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 19...
Damien Van Puyvelde, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service" (Georgetown UP, 2026)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
France is a leading intelligence power, but we know very little about its premier intelligence agency: the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Exté...
Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri, "Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future" (Ibidem Press, 2025)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In my recent conversation with Sittig, we explored her co-authored book Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future (Ibidem ...
Judith Hill, "Gothic: Building Castles in Post-Union Ireland" (Four Courts Press, 2026)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The Act of Union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association with B...
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A rich and immersive reinterpretation of the history of Western thought, The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late A...
Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared hi...
Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors (Rutgers University Press, 2026) examines how personal knowledge about student sexual ...