New Books Network

Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator f...

Competing Visions for International Order

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Are we living in an era of competing international orders? A new book, entitled Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Di...

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainabi...

Lys Kulamadayil, "Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law" (Bloomsbury 2025)

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (Bloomsbury 2025), Lys Kulamadayil offers a crucial examination of how international ...

Ian Gittins, "The Cure: A Perfect Dream" (Gemini Books, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band. The Cure's story is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one...

Hélène Landemore, "Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule" (Penguin, 2026)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Host Jun Wei Lee speaks with Hélène Landemore about her book, Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule (Penguin, 2026). An acclaime...

Bridget Salmon and Andrew Godley, "The Making of the Modern Supermarket: Self-Service Adoption in British Food Retailing, 1950-1975" (Oxford UP, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What seems mundane today—walking into a supermarket, picking up goods, and paying at a checkout—was once a radical experiment. In our latest New B...

Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admini...

Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India" (Oxford UP, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India (Oxford UP, 2025), Elaine Fisher reconstructs Vīraśaiva origins from unst...

Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this masterful, groundbreaking work Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2...

Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Not too long ago, in the 2000s and 2010s, many felt that the internet–even one behind the Great Firewall–would bring about a more open China. As P...

Sary Zananiri, "Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and ...

Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley et al. eds., "Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media" (Routledge, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Studying Chinese media has never been a stable intellectual enterprise. As Professor Yuezhi Zhao once observed, it often resembles aiming at a target ...

The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When young people began disappearing in Argentina, their mothers searched for answers. Despite laws prohibiting protests and political gatherings, the...

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and br...

Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The United Kingdom has sixteen nuclear power stations. Most go under the radar, but their presence is enormous, both physically and culturally. They d...

Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Claire Nicolas, a chercheuse du Fonds National Suisse at Basel University, a holder of a prestigious Ambizione Research Grant, ...

Hang Tu, "Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past" (Harvard UP, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past (H...

Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Off...

Karen Bermann, "The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir" (New Jewish Press, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an ado...

Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, "Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime c...

What Went Wrong with The Night Manager?

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we consider the final three episodes of The Night Manager, season two. We ask what went wrong with the second ...

Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Camb...

Zaid Adhami, "Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith" (UNC Press, 2025)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In one of the most important books published in 2025—Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith, published by UNC Press—Zaid Ad...

Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explo...

Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today (U Michigan Press, 2026) insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a centra...

Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In her book Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War (Columbia UP, 2025), historian Kristin Roebuck grapples with the question: Wh...

Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the...

Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States (Routledge, 2026) examines the causes, consequences, and politi...

Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In her book Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War (Columbia UP, 2025), historian Kristin Roebuck grapples with the question: Wh...

Michael Mirolla, "How About This…?" (At Bay Press, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Michael Mirolla about his fascinating novel, How About This…? (At Bay Press, 2025). It’s a...

Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the en...

Daniel R. Langton, "Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutionary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Professor Daniel Langton, author of Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolution...

Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Baldwin: A Love Story (FSG, 2025) the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relati...

Ellen Clarke, "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology" (Oxford UP, 2025)

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for disting...

Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on t...

Robert E. Siegel, "The Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today's Companies" (Random House, 2025)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Since the start of this century, businesses have confronted a series of extreme and constant disruptions, including technological upheavals, a pandemi...

Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Lucy Donkin’s Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2022) illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in...

Khashayar Kess Mohammadim, "The Book of Interruptions" (Buckrider Books, 2025)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi about his new poetry collection, The Book of Interruptions. In ...

Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U.S. gover...

Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Florian Wagner about his new book Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 (Cambridge UP, 2022). F...

Chris Washburn and Ron Chepesiuk, "Out of Bounds: From Broken NBA Dreams to Redemption" (WildBlue Press, 2025)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Highly promising basketball player Chris Washburn was selected third overall in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. But a chance encounte...

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb...

Nancy Castaldo, "Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World" (Island Press, 2025)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our...

Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Linda Connolly is a professor of sociology at Maynooth University, with research focusing on gender, Irish society, family studies, migration, and Iri...

Mel Rosenberg, "Emily Saw A Door" (Random House Studio, 2026)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Knudsen, celebrated author of over fifty children's books (and a personal favorite) agreed to interview Mel Rosenberg on the eve of publicat...

Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lon...

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

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In December 2025, writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Glo...

Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Cen...

Ashlyn Hand, "Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy" (NYU Press, 2025)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 formally established the promotion of religious freedom as a U.S. foreign policy and national security...

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup" (Bold Type Books, 2025)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the world prepares for the 2026 World Cup, Jonathan Wilson’s new book, The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup (Bold Type Books, ...

Oren Harman, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History" (Basic Books, 2025)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have ...

Todd Cleveland, "Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium" (Ohio UP, 2024)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021 due to COVID-19), the fifty-four African countries that participated finished the tournament with the lo...

Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samarai" (British Museum, 2025)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Samurai (British Museum Press 2026) is a richly illustrated volume co-authored by exhibition curator Rosina Buckland (British Museum) and Oleg Bene...

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the...

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Ian Smith urges readers of Othello, The Merchant of Venice, ...

Bill Kopp, "What's the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums" (Hozac, 2025)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it in...

A. Bagliani and N, Şenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life and...

Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomeno...

Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this tr...

Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lind...

Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Kuehn, Professor Emeritus at Clemson University talks about his new book, Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press,...

Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed...

Rob Gallagher, "Artgames after GamerGate" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Videogame culture is obsessed with development. But gaming is still widely associated with wasted time, squandered potential and backwards attitudes. ...

Church and State (Professors Dan Rober, Michelle Loris, and Charlie Gillespie): American Cardinals denounce US Foreign Policy

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Following Pope Leo’s State of the World Address in January of 2026, the three American Cardinals who are also diocesan archbishops Cardinal Cupich (...

Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, an...

Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini, with Marleen Thaler

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today host Pierce Salguero sits down with Marleen Thaler, a researcher at the University of Vienna and University of Graz. Together, we investigate th...

Jenny Mustard, "What a Time to Be Alive" (Pegasus Books, 2025)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jenny Mustard is a writer and content creator, born in Sweden but living in London. Jenny and her work have featured in the Observer, the Indepe...

Cindy Anh Nguyen, "Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam" (U California Press, 2026)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers purs...

Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. A Co...

Olivier Esteves, "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Their names are Mohamed, Samira, sometimes Matthieu or Sophie. They were born and bred in France and are highly qualified, but they have decided to go...

China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the global challenges posed by climate change and environmental issues, China has been presented both as a source of problems and a p...

Joseph Scalia III and Lynne S. Scalia, "Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education" (Routledge, 2025)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism an...

Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rural students are unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend el...

Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In t...

Eric Chopra, "Ghosted" (Speaking Tiger, 2026)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Delhi is haunted—by its ghosts, its ruins, and its unending capacity for rebirth. In the shadow of medieval mosques and Mughal tombs, the past refus...

Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a med...

Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charl...

Wisdom of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hillary Langberg discusses Wisdom of the Goddess, an online exhibition she curated for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art featuring nine ...

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, "Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequal...

J. L. Schellenberg, "What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine" (Oxford UP, 2024)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this book, What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2024),...

164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the condition of Jews in Christian Europe, France was long known as the haven and heartland of integration and of toleration. And yet...

P. C. Saidalavi, "Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labor, and Islam in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why Muslims in South India observe hierarchical intra-communal relationships despite the egalitarianism of their religionIn Seeking Allah’s Hierarc...

Tom Griffiths, "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind" (Henry Holt and Co., 2026)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind (Henry Holt and Co., 2026) is an exploration of the quest to use mathematic...

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for...

Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 202...

Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. Spanning 30 city blocks and h...

Rob Kutner, "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" (Wicked Son, 2025)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting (Wicked Son, 2025) is packed with Jew-facts, Jew-figures, and the original, never-before-seen documents from ...

Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officia...

Hollay Ghadery, "The Unravelling of Ou" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, award-winning and celebrated author Farzana Doctor interviews Hollay Ghadery about her novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimp...

Robert Guffey, "Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos" (Headpress, 2026)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos (Headpress, 2026), Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful t...

Neelum Saran Gour, "Requiem in Raga Janki" (Penguin Viking, 2018)

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the early years of the twentieth century, in what was then British India, culture thrived in the city of Allahabad. In this vibrant hub of musician...

Janet Kintner, "A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for her Place on the Bench" (She Writes Press, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Janet Kintner survived a difficult father and several assaults, but she didn’t let any of it stop her from pursuing law school as one of three women...

Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings (Liverpool UP, 2025) bridges the gap between the Car...

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, a...

Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts ...

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles...

Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Friction, the force that resists motion, is synonymous with difficulty and complication. If you’ve ever replaced tires worn smooth by the road or re...

Sunny Dhillon, "Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sunny Dhillon about his book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (Wolsak & Wynn, 20...

Edward Amoroso, "Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of the greatest challenges facing any start-up is “crossing the chasm”: bridging the gap between early adopters and mass-market buyers. Yet ma...