NBN Book of the Day

NBN Book of the Day

episodes

One book selected daily from those published on the New Books Network.

Policed: A Latinx History of State Violence with Marisol LeBrón (U California Press, 2027)

November 14, 2026

Policed

Marisol LeBrón
Hosted by Servando Rojas

How has policing fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience? The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by…

Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation with Robin James (Duke UP, 2026)

November 13, 2026

Good Vibes Only

Robin James
Hosted by John Armenta

In Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation, Robin James argues that “vibes” have become a way for how we see ou…

The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World with Mike Beggs (Verso, 2026)

November 12, 2026

The Blueprint

Bhaskar Sunkara, Ben Burgis and Mike Beggs

Neither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.Capitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprin…

Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science with Lauren F. Klein (MIT Press, 2026)

November 11, 2026

Data by Design

Lauren F. Klein et al.
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often…

Digging Beneath Bones with teri elam (Finishing Line Press, 2026)

November 10, 2026

Digging Beneath Bones

teri elam
Hosted by Sullivan Summer

Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam’s debut poetry collection, travels through memory, lineage, rupture, and return, illuminating the body that navigates…

The Tablet Computer: The Idea of a Machine with Elizabeth R. Petrick (JHU Press, 2026)

November 8, 2026

The Tablet Computer

Elizabeth R. Petrick
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented an ambitious—and often unrealized—vision of personal computing. The Tablet…

The Capitalist Era with Jeremy Adelman (Princeton UP, 2026)

November 8, 2026

The Capitalist Era

Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy Adelman’s The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind (Princeton University Press, 2026) puts the world’s current unwinding…

One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850 with Christopher Meissner (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 7, 2026

One from Many

Meissner

We tend to talk about globalisation as if it arrived with container ships, multinationals and the internet. Christopher Meissner’s One from the Many: …

Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution with Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Doubleday, 2026)

November 5, 2026

Freedom Round the Globe

Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Hosted by Edward Blum

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning…

University Press Week 2026 with President Stephanie Williams

November 4, 2026

University Press Week 2026

Stephanie Williams
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with Stephanie Williams, Director of Wayne State University Press, and president of the Association of University Presses. Every ye…

Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China with Yuan Gong (U Michigan Press, 2026)

November 3, 2026

Home Team Away

Yuan Gong
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China (U Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Yuan Gong calls for a rethinking of sport fandom that is div…

The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art with Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins

November 2, 2026

The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art

Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins

In this episode of the Books for Better Understanding series from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson hosts Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins for a di…

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism with Rongbin Han (Columbia UP, 2026)

November 1, 2026

Make China Great Again

Rongbin Han
Hosted by Anthony Kao

Rongbin Han is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he studies Chinese politics and the internet. Han’s latest boo…

A Time of Witches with Madeline Martin (Hanover Square Press, 2026)

October 31, 2026

A Time of Witches

Madeline Martin

Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries--or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bests…

Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them with Jeffrey H. Cohen (U Texas Press, 2025)

October 30, 2026

Eating Grasshoppers

Jeffrey H. Cohen
Hosted by Yadong Li

Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them (U Texas Press, 2025) is an approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, so…

The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable with Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (U Chicago Press, 2026)

October 28, 2026

The Fog of Accountability

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Hosted by Ursula Hackett

In the United States, hundreds of thousands of elected and appointed officials serve more than 50,000 subnational governments, making important decisi…

Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs with Michael Doan (AK Press, 2026)

October 27, 2026

Rehearsing the Future

Michael Doan
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026), Michael Doan explores the work and legacy of James a…

In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World with Elizabeth F. S. Roberts (Princeton UP, 2026)

October 26, 2026

In Praise of Addiction

Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mo…

From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign with Matthew J. Larson (U Georgia Press, 2026)

October 25, 2026

From Blood to Ink

Matthew J. Larson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign (U Georgia Pres…

Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan with Maxime Polleri (NYU Press, 2026)

October 24, 2026

Radioactive Governance

Maxime Polleri
Hosted by Jingyi Li

The 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest sev…