New Books Network

Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)

Andrew Martin, "Down Time" (FSG, 2026)

Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz

A. G. Hopkins, "The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Gregg Andrews, "Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America’s Hometown, 1890–1970" (LSU Press, 2026)

Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

Podcast Intellectuals, Panel #4

Scholarly podcasting bridges the gap between academic research and public communication by prioritizing narrative structure over traditional lecture formats. Academics often struggle to translate dense, idea-driven monographs into compelling audio, requiring a shift toward storytelling that centers on human experience ...

Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Metamodern Mysticism with Linda Ceriello

Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Becoming the System

Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026)

Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)

Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)

George Grella, "Minimalist Music" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies

Jay Szpilka, "BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)