New Books Network

Judith G. Coffin, “Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir” (Cornell UP, 2020)

Judith G. Coffin
Sex, Love, and Letters
Writing Simone de Beauvoir
Cornell University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the Day NBN Special Series New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society October 26, 2020 Julia Gossard

When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir’s international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public. This correspondence, at the heart of Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir... Read More

Marta Zaraska
Growing Young
How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100
Appetite/Random House, 2020

New Books in Medicine New Books in Psychology New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness New Books Network October 26, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I interview Marta Zaraska about her book Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 (Appetite/Random House, 2020). Now you may be thinking to yourself, “100? I’m not sure how appealing that is.” In our interview, Zaraska has a surprising response for you. And... Read More

M. Newhart and W. Dolphin, “The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience” (Routledge, 2018)

Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin
The Medicalization of Marijuana
Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network October 26, 2020 Lucas Richert

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs. Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin’s The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience (Routledge, 2018) takes... Read More

Neil Shister, “Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World” (Counterpoint, 2019)

Neil Shister
Radical Ritual
How Burning Man Changed the World
Counterpoint, 2020

Celebration Studies NBN Special Series New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Sociology New Books Network October 26, 2020 Emily Ruth Allen

Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World (Counterpoint, 2019) presents the event as vitally, historically important. Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms... Read More

Felicia Angeja Viator, “To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America” (Harvard UP, 2020)

Felicia Angeja Viator
To Live and Defy in LA
How Gangsta Rap Changed America
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in the American West New Books Network October 26, 2020 Stephen Hausmann

In 1985, Greg Mack, a DJ working for Los Angeles radio station KDAY, played a song that sounded like nothing else on West Coast airwaves: Toddy Tee’s “The Batteram,” a hip hop track that reflected the experiences of a young man growing up in 1980s Compton. The song tells about... Read More

Anway Mukhopadhyay
The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions

Palgrave, 2020

New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in Language New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 26, 2020 Raj Balkaran

Contemporary debates on “mansplaining” foreground the authority enjoyed by male speech, and highlight the way it projects listening as the responsibility of the dominated, and speech as the privilege of the dominant. What mansplaining denies systematically is the right of women to speak and be heard as much as men.... Read More

Bonny H. Miller, “Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America” (U Rochester Press, 2020)

Bonny H. Miller
Augusta Browne
Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Rochester Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 26, 2020 Kristen M. Turner

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer. In Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Rochester Press, 2020), author Bonny Miller contextualizes the life and career of this remarkable woman who built a public career... Read More

Andrew Demshuk, “Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany” (Cornell UP, 2020)

Andrew Demshuk
Bowling for Communism
Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany
Cornell University Press, 2020

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sports October 26, 2020 Steven Seegel

Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2020) illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany’s second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of urban ingenuity amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of... Read More

Lissette Lopez Szwydky, “Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century” (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Ohio State University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Communications New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Popular Culture October 26, 2020 Miranda Corcoran

In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies we speak with Lissette Lopez Szwydky, author of the new book Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio State UP, 2020) A comprehensive study of adaptation across media, form and genre, this book argues passionately for the importance of adaptation to our... Read More

S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette, “The Swahili World” (Routledge, 2017)

Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette
The Swahili World

S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Archaeology New Books in Language New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the Indian Ocean World October 26, 2020 Jenny Peruski

The Swahili World (Routledge, 2017) presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the eastern coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban and rural spaces found there... Read More