New Books Network

Radio ReOrient 14:3: Islamophobia in the Academy and the ‘Everyday’, with Izram Chaudry, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Dr Izram Chaudry about his recent report (written with Dr Yunis Alam) regarding Islamophobi...

169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our Recall This Buck series began by speaking with Christine Desan of Harvard Law School about how key ideas—and the actual currency, physical coins...

Penny Roberts, "Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 2025), Penny Robert's latest book, takes us into the world ...

Mark A. Johnson, "American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (U Georgia Press, 2026), Dr. Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How...

Lewis Sage-Passant, "Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars have long viewed intelligence as the preserve of nation states. Where the term ‘private sector intelligence’ is used, the focus has been ...

The Shawshank Redemption in China: An Interview with Matti Lehtonen

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How can an entirely foreign cast perform the American “The Shawshank Redemption” in the Chinese language across China? In this episode of the Nord...

New Book Releases 2026 on Japan, Taiwan

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Books on Asia podcast introduces new fiction and non-fiction on Japan to be published this year, 2026, along with two upcoming boo...

The Case for Career Services

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is career services? If you don’t know, you aren’t alone. Most of us operate from a limited or outdated idea of what career services o...

Gudrun Bühnemann, "Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee: The Many Faces of Patañjali in Indian Traditions" (Brill, 2025)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee: The Many Faces of Patañjali in Indian Traditions (Brill, 2025) illuminates the many faces of Patañjali in In...

Jason Welle, "Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulami" (I.B. Tauris, 2024)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In his debut work, Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulami (I.B. Tauris, 2024), Jason Welle sheds a new light on...

Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence...

Security and Risk: Challenges for Economy and Business in the Global 20th Century: A Conversation with Marie Huber, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The volume addresses issues of security and risk in economic and business history. A focus lies on the study of security in order to highlight the ce...

Security and Risk: Challenges for Economy and Business in the Global 20th Century: A Conversation with Marie Huber, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The volume addresses issues of security and risk in economic and business history. A focus lies on the study of security in order to highlight the ce...

Gwyneth Lonergan, "Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK" (Bristol UP, 2025)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity...

Rawlston Williams, "The Caribbean Cookbook" (Phaidon Press, 2026)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An exploration of Caribbean cuisine and culinary history, featuring more than 380 authentic home cooking recipes from across the region Caribbean cuis...

Jinwoo Park, "Oxford Soju Club" (Dundurn Press, 2025)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Doha, a North Korean spymaster, is found stabbed in an alley in Oxford. Doha tells his mentee–another North Korean spy named Yohan—to go to the Ox...

Andrew W. M. Smith, "Make Cheese Not War: Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in Modern France" (Manchester UP, 2026)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1971, the French government announced a massive extension of its military base on the Larzac plateau in southern France. Land was to be expropriate...

The Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others: Yiddish-English Bilingual Parody Songs

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the years immediately following the Second World War, the Barton Brothers, an anarchic Catskill comedy duo, began recording humorous macaronic (tha...

Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman, "West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life" (Little, Brown and Co, 2011)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 197...

Kate Crane, "Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Crane's new memoir, Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026) starts when Crane was in ei...

Lia Kent, "The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scho...

Yingyi Ma, "Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education" (Columbia UP, 2020)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma ...

Lisa Lee, "American Han" (Algonquin Books, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents de...

Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel A. Bell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, a...

Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) exami...

Linda Hamilton, "The Fourth Wife" (Kensington, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There must be a shift in the Zeitgeist of the publishing world, because after a long drought in Gothic novels, this is the second one I’ve encounter...

Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Tatooine, stand among the sand dunes of Arrakis or gaze at the gas-giant plan...

Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years later...

Rory Naismith, "Offa: King of the Mercians" (Yale UP, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Offa: King of the Mercians (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Rory Naismith presents an authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importan...

Jason Reynolds, "Soundtrack: A Novel" (Random House, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The print adaptation of Jason Reynolds acclaimed, award-winning audiobook Soundtrack (Crown Books, 2026)—a stirring story of music, friendship, ...

Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in ter...

Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Catapult, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbrin...

David-James Gonzales, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California" (Oxford UP, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange...

Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. Decolonizi...

Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans ...

Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract an...

Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti...

Daphne A. Brooks, "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince" (Duke UP, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince (Duke UP, 2026) is the first critical anthology dedicated to e...

Paul Robichaud, "Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany" (Reaktion, 2026)

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Paul Robichaud explores how ancient monuments –...

Transnational Solidarities with Nico Slate

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My conversation with Nico Slate began with him reflecting on his own path into the study of historical connections between South Asia and the United S...

Elias V. Messinas, "Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace" (Bloch Publishing, 2011)

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Across Greece, once-thriving Jewish communities stood for more than two thousand years. From the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina to the great Sephardic cen...

David Kirsch on the Dot Com Bubble and Bust

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We chat with historian David Kirsch, Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School, about ...

Michael L. Satlow, "An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2026)

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordin...

Decolonizing the Novum

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the n...

Money Beyond Borders with Barry Eichengreen

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international a...

Get Shorty

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood loves making movies about itself: on this show alone, we’ve done Sunset Boulevard, Sullivan’s Travels, and Singin’ in the Rain. Get...

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge catas...

Gabriel S. Estrada, "Queer Indigenous Cinemas: Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbea...

Flower Darby, "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience--for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teac...

Matthew Bothwell, "The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of the stars, when we l...

Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the M...

Katharina Wiedlack, "Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures (Academic Studies Press, 2025) examines the New Cold War...

John Bechtold, "U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space (Taylor & Francis, 2024), John Bechtold examines how the US military understan...

Kim Embrey, "Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The South American coca plant was established in 19th-century Britain as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug. Drawing on bot...

Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading rev...

Christian Henderson, "Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the ...

Fermenting and Foraging: Resourcefulness in the Historical and Contemporary Kitchen

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today, techniques such as fermenting and foraging are increasingly appealing to those seeking to create economical, nourishing, waste-free meals. This...

Alberto Galasso, "The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital" (Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2024)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the importance of innovation for the growth of firms, industries, and the national economy, the strategic tools available to effectively manag...

Beans Velocci, "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary" (Duke UP, 2026)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Duke UP, 2026), Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts ...

Peter D. McDonald, "The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tracing the cultural history of play--from Fluxus to SimCity Games and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults' lives, and play is w...

David Potter, "Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar" (Oxford UP, 2025)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advoc...

Joanna Kline, "Narrative Analogy in the David Story" (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever heard echoes of the Genesis patriarchs in the story of David? If so, you're not alone! Join us as we speak with Joanna Kline about her ...

Matthew P. Romaniello, "Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Cornell UP, 2025) is a history of eighteenth-century naturalists and physician...

Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic with Mia Bennett

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is declining rapidly, wildfires a...

Danielle Girard, "Pinky Swear" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Pinky Swear (Simon and Schuster, 2026) Lexi thought she knew everything about Mara Vannatta. Best friends since middle school, they drifted a...

Annahid Dashtgard, "Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders" (Dundurn Press, 2026)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Annahid Dashtgard about her new book, Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders (Dundurn Pr...

Margaret Heffernan, "Embracing Uncertainty: How Writers, Musicians and Artists Thrive In An Unpredictable World" (Policy Press, 2025)

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependen...

John Masiulionis, "Walking Each Other Home – Zachary’s Mission: A Hospice for Children" (Trolley Stop Publishing, 2026)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's not every day that I get to interview an author (John Masiulionis) who has written a picture book entitled Walking Each Other Home – Zachary’...

Jan Yager, "Time Masters: Eleven Secrets to Greater Productivity and Life Fulfillment" (Hannacroix Craft Books, 2026)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jan Yager's latest book, Time Masters: Eleven Secrets to Greater Productivity and Life Fulfillment (Hannacroix Craft Books, 2026), examines the que...

Tim Connor et al., "Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimagining Non-Judicial Remedy for Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs...

Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid.

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is Radio ReOrient. Welcome to our 14th season of navigating the post-Western and connecting the Islamosphere. We begin this season with Radio R...

Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Nurhaizatul Jamil’s Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore (U Illinois Press, 2025) is a complex and meticulous eth...

Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Translator Ted Goossen talks about everything from first landing in Japan in 1968 to the differences between translating Haruki Murakami and Hiromi Ka...

Radio ReOrient 14.2: State of the Ummah – Authoritarianism and Resistance: Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hosted by SherAli Tahreen and Shehla Khan, with Tanzeen Doha and Salman Sayyid

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Radio ReOrient’ s occasional series The State of the Ummah, SherAli Tahreen, Shehla Khan, Tanzeen Doha, and Salman Sayyid unpack...

The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core ...

Casey Walker, "Islands" The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Walker speaks to Emily Everett about his story “Islands,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Set at an old lake house rife with u...

Kathryn Nave, "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025)

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sensory-guid...

Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017, a cache of Jewish materials was discovered in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The discovery included a manuscript of “...

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone ...

Is "For All Mankind" the Most Ambitious Show on Television?

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first two episodes of season five of For All Mankind, Apple+TV’s alternate history show about ...

Pavel Brunssen, "The Making of 'Jew Clubs': Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures" (Indiana UP, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Pavel Brunssen, a Research Associate and Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg Univers...

Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (U Hong Kong Press, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How did the movement of people, goods, and ships reshape connections between Latin America and Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri...

Just Slightly Outside the Circle: Peter Orner and Sarah Wasserman (EH)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Chicago is the main character, the setting, the obsession, and the historical grist for the mill of Peter Orner’s most recent novel, The Gossip Col...

Karen O'Brien-Kop and Suzanne Newcombe eds., "Religion, Spirituality and Public Health" (British Academy, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Religion, Spirituality and Public Health: Competing and Complementary Epistemes (British Academy, 2025) focuses on exploring the role of differen...

The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’...

Cedric de Leon, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" (U California Press, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Cedric de Leon, author of Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity (U California Press, ...

Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inflation. Wealth disparity. War. Climate change. While every time period is marked by apocalyptic fears, it certainl...

Culturally Safe Healthcare: Addressing Racism and Rebuilding Trust with guest Dr Shingisai Chando

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, we are joined by Dr Shingisai Chando, a published academic and Research Fellow of the POCHE Indigenous Health Centre at the Universi...

Katharine K. Wilkinson, "Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" (Amber Lotus Publishing, 2026)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionat...

Adam Zeman, "The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as something us...

Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: W...

Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadow...

Jordan Treske, "Building the Milwaukee Bucks: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson, and the Rapid Rise of an NBA Franchise, 1968-1975" (McFarland, 2025)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In three short years, the Milwaukee Bucks went from merely an idea to NBA champions. What started as a quest by Marvin Fishman and eventually Wesley P...

Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, "The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp" (Harvey Miller, 2025)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof join Jana Byars to talk about their new book, The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the P...

S5E5 The Gospel According to Josephus: On the Final Days of Jesus Christ with Thomas C. Schmidt

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this fifth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr...

Fiction’s Lost Ambition with Writer Sam Kahn

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fiction has “lost its ambition,” and not only that, “its centrality to the culture,” Sam Kahn says in a recent piece on “Castalia,” his ...

Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian D...

Peter Richardson, "Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine" (U California Press, 2026)

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine (U ...

Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story ...

Older Adults Learning English in Berlin

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper "English la...