New Books Network
Book of the Day/ American West

Becoming Mary Sully

Toward an American Indian Abstract

Philip J. Deloria

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All of these facets of her life and of her context are present in her art. In Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), Harvard University professor and OAH President (and direct Sully relative) Phil Deloria uncovers Sully's artwork, long tucked away in family …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past several centuries of Russian history. Widely diverse objects such as …
Philosophy

Creolizing the Nation

Kris F. Sealey

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nation (Northwestern UP, 2020), Kris F …
Economic and Business History

Nature′s Evil

A Cultural History of Natural Resources

Alexander Etkind

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use …
Psychology

The Codependent Relationship Recovery Plan

A 5-Step Guide to Understand, Accept, and Break Free from the Codependent Cycle

Krystal Mazzola

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
It could start as lending an occasional hand, but over time, escalates into putting someone else above everything else―even our own well-being. Balance is needed for healthy relationships with others …
Children's Literature

No Bears Allowed

Lydia Lukidis

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Lydia Lukidis about her book No Bears Allowed (Blue Whale Press, 2019). Rabbit is afraid of many things, but most of all he's afraid of gigantic, monstery, BEARS …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam

Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression

Mirjam Le and Franziska Nicolaisen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Does ‘citizenship’ exist in a socialist or communist context? If it does, what would this mean in the case of Vietnam? To what extent do the Vietnamese state and Vietnamese …
Burned by Books

You Never Get It Back

Cara Blue Adams

Hosted by Chris Holmes
An interview with Cara Blue Adams, author of You Never Get It Back (University of Iowa Press, 2021). Cara and I discuss the joys of linked short story collections, the lack …
Book of the Day/ Think About It

John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"

John Waters

Hosted by Uli Baer
James Joyce’s 1914 collection of fifteen short stories, Dubliners, is righty considered one of the greatest literary achievements of Western modernity. But what is so original about these stories that begin with childhood, cover adolescence and adult choices, and conclude with a deeply moving reflection on our mortality? What life-changing experiences are their center, and how does Joyce understand such epiphanies? And who is Joyce, who writes the stories about …
Fantasy

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Today I talked to Sue Lynn Tan about her new book Daughter of the Moon Goddess (Harper Voyager, 2022). The immortal Xinyin lives a quiet life on the moon with her mother …
Literature

Down a Dark River

Karen Odden

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In Karen Odden’s latest mystery (Down a Dark River, Crooked Lane Books 2021) it’s 1878 in London, and Scotland Yard inspector Michael Corravan, a former thief and bare-knuckles boxer, is …
Critical Theory

Reimagining the Creative Industries

Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care

Miranda Campbell

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can we make creative industries fair and inclusive? In Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge, 2021), Miranda Campbell, an associate professor in the School …
Architecture

The Architecture Concept Book

James Tait

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behavior, The Architecture Concept Book (Thames and Hudson, 2018) …
Religion

Butinage

The Art of Religious Mobility

Yonatan N. Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares

Hosted by Irene Promodh
Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

State and Religion in Israel

A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry

Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.” The relationship between religion and state presents complex challenges to liberal democracies around the world. In …
History of Science

Flashes of Creation

George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

Paul Halpern

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation: George …
Indian Religions

Hindu Theology and Biology

The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory

Jonathan B. Edelmann

Hosted by Shruti Dixit
In Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020), Professor Jonathan B. Edelmann develops a constructive and comparative theological dialogue between Hinduism and Western …
Children's Literature

Sadie’s Shabbat Stories

Melissa Stoller

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Melissa Stoller about her book Sadie’s Shabbat Stories (Spork, 2020). Sadie loves listening to Nana's tales, especially about the traveling candlesticks, kiddush cup, and challah cover they use …
Book of the Day/ Eastern European Studies

The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland

Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties

Anat Plocker

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties (Indiana University Press, 2022), Anat Plocker examines the campaign of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that swept through Poland in 1967 and 1968, in the wake of the Six-Day War. Plocker offers a new framework for understanding how this anti-Semitic campaign was motivated by Polish fears of Jewish influence and international power. She sheds new light on the internal …
Sports

The Story of Yoga

From Ancient India to the Modern West

Alistair Shearer

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Alistair Shearer, a freelance scholar of South Asian religion and culture, and teacher of yoga and the psychology of yoga. He is also the author …
Middle Eastern Studies

The Egyptian Labor Corps

Race, Space, and Place in the First World War

Kyle J. Anderson

Hosted by Christopher Rose
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work …
General History

The Corrupter of Boys

Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy

Dyan Elliott

Hosted by Jana Byars
In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Michał Borkowski

Co-founder of Brainly, Poland's First Unicorn to be?

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Michał Borkowski is the co-founder of Brainly. This Project Kazimierz interview with Michał was recorded back in 2016. Since then, Brainly has gone from strength to strength. Michal explains the …
LGBTQ+ Studies

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

Andrew J. Kunka

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South Carolina …
Public Policy

Disorder

A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine

Peter A. Swenson

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and economy in health care, Peter A. Swenson illuminates the …
Business, Management, and Marketing

The Logic of Professionalism

Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations

Johan Alvehus

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The Logic of Professionalism: Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations (Bristol UP, 2022) discusses common management and work practices in professional service organizations. Johan Alvehus opens important discussions on …
Anthropology

Becoming Palestine

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

Gil Z. Hochberg

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order …
Children's Literature

Marigold Bakes a Cake

Mike Malbrough

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Mike Malbrough about his book Marigold Bakes a Cake (Philomel Books, 2017). Marigold the cat loves Mondays, for that is when he bakes cakes With his favorite recipe in front …
Scholarly Communication

Academic or Trade Publisher? How Do You Decide?

A Discussion with Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz, author of "Your Life Depends on It"

Talya Miron-Shatz

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Tune in to hear Prof. Talya Miron Shatz, author of Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health (Basic Books, 2021) discuss …
Book of the Day/ Medicine

The First Shots

The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine

Brendan Borrell

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against a vicious virus. The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine (Mariner Books, 2021), soon to be the subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (Succession, Vice …
Academic Life

A Conversation about Teaching While Nerdy

Jessamyn Neuhaus

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The hidden curriculum of transforming yourself from student to teacherAccepting and embracing your nerdy/geeky/introverted self Challenges faced by introverted …
Jewish Studies

Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin

A Fugitive Modernism

Marc Caplan

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism (Indiana UP, 2021), Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War …
Asian Review of Books

Kashmir at the Crossroads

Inside a 21st-Century Conflict

Sumantra Bose

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“Kashmir” carries the burden of being known as one of the world’s biggest flashpoints. If a novel, TV show, or video game wants an easy international crisis, there’s a good …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Glass Half Broken

Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

Coleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Colleen Ammerman about her new book (co-authored with Boris Groysberg) Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (HBR Press, 2021) …
Children's Literature

Making Their Voices Heard

The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Vivian Kirkfield

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Vivian Kirkfield about her book Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe (Little Bee Books, 2020). Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. On …
Art

A Philosophy of the Art School

Michael Newall

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between 'you too are an artist' and 'abandon all hope you who enter here' would …
Literary Studies

Küchlya, Decembrist Poet

Translated by Anna Kurkina Rush, Peter France, and Christopher Rush

Yuri Tynianov

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Küchlya (1925), the first novel of the great Russian formalist Yury Tynyanov gives us a vividly written and moving recreation of the childhood, youth, beliefs and adventures of an eccentric …
Literary Studies

Places of Mind

A Life of Edward Said

Timothy Brennan

Hosted by Bryant Scott
Timothy Brennan is Professor of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several seminal books in literary studies, including Borrowed Light …
Political Science

The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy

Eric D. Loepp, Daniel J. Mallinson, and Julia Marin Hellwege

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientists Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg), Julia Marin Hellwege (University of South Dakota), and Eric Loepp (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) have assembled more than thirty chapters that examine how to …
Indian Religions

A Conversation with Laurie Patton

Professor of Religions and President of Middlebury College

Laurie Patton

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Raj Balkaran speaks with Laurie Patton, Professor of Religions and President at Middlebury College, about her scholarly journey, educational administration, poetry, trends in scholarship, the significance of Indian myth, and …
Book of the Day/ Intellectual History

Dangerous Minds

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

Ronald Beiner

Hosted by August Baker
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. With the Brexit vote in Great …
French Studies

Adventure Capital

Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris

Julie Kleinman

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people move through the Gare du Nord train station in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, the largest train station in Europe. Julie Kleinman's Adventure Capital …
Southeast Asian Studies

The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

N. J. Enfield

Hosted by Michele Ford
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and …
Chinese Studies

The Yellow River

A Natural and Unnatural History

Ruth Mostern

Hosted by Lance Pursey
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its …
Ethnographic Marginalia

Ethnography in Rural Indonesia

In Conversation with Tania Li

Tania Murray Li

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
What can years of ethnographic engagement with rural Indonesia teach us about capitalism, development, and resistance? On this episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, our guest is Dr. Tania Li, Professor of …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Ravenna

Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

Judith Herrin

Hosted by Mark Klobas
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here …
Medicine

Mad by the Millions

Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

Harry Yi-Jui Wu

Hosted by Kelvin Chan
In 1948, the World Health Organization began to prepare its social psychiatry project, which aimed to discover the epidemiology and arrive at a classification of mental disorders. In Mad by …
Anthropology

Being a Human

Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

Charles Foster

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist extraordinaire Charles Foster set …
Children's Literature

Penny And The Plain Piece Of Paper

Miri Leshem-Pelly

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Miri Leshem-Pelly about her book Penny And The Plain Piece Of Paper (Philomel Books, 2020). Penny lives on a plain piece of paper, with just one problem--she's bored. There's …
The Common Magazine

Who Writes the Arabian Gulf?

Noor Naga

Hosted by Emily Everett
Noor Naga speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about co-editing The Common’s first-of-its-kind portfolio of writing from the Arabian Gulf, which appeared in Issue 22. Noor penned an introduction to …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa

A Conversation with Prakruti Ramesh

Prakruti Ramesh

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Since the 1980s, pictures by the late Goan cartoonist Mario Miranda have been used to adorn and confer ‘local’ flavour on a variety of public settings in Goa. Today, Miranda’s …