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Art
Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.
November 2, 2026
The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art
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…
November 1, 2026
Art for the White House
With Art for the White House: A Changing Portrait of America (White House Association, 2026), Leslie Greene Bowman presents a wholly new perspective o…
October 31, 2026
Russian Archaism
Irina Shevelenko's Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic (Cornell University Press, 2024) discusses the late-19th and …
October 23, 2026
Art for War
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displac…
October 21, 2026
Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?
When Neil Selkirk first saw one of Arbus’s photographs as a young man at someone’s house in London, it almost sent him screaming into the street. Unse…
October 15, 2026
The Kennicott Bible
Katrin Kogman-Appel is a professor of Medieval Jewish history with research focusing on book culture, readers, and reading practices in medieval Europ…
October 12, 2026
"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines"
This is the first episode in a series that explores the intersections of science and the humanities in university life. In today’s conversation, Jeffr…
October 10, 2026
Painting Paranoia
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by paran…
October 4, 2026
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere
Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visua…
September 27, 2026
The Connoisseur
Eminent historian Peter Burke joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, The Connoisseur: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2026), considering the art con…
September 21, 2026
The Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art
Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) represents a risky experiment in art-his…
September 20, 2026
Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic
Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, m…
September 18, 2026
Dressays
The clothes we inherit, covet, purchase, borrow, wear, store, destroy, or give away are intricately woven into our ideas about who we are and how we r…
September 16, 2026
Writing Against the Machine
Debates about AI typically deal with its immediate material consequences, from cybersecurity and infrastructure to plagiarism and copyright. Yet most …
September 11, 2026
The Varnish and the Glaze
Panel painters in both the middle ages and the fifteenth century created works that evoke the luster of precious stones, the sheen of polished gold an…
September 9, 2026
The Idiots
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. In this interview, Morteza Hajizadeh …
September 1, 2026
Duty, Banality, and Hopefulness
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Alex Cain. Dr Alex Cain researches in the fields of political theory and ethical theory, with a particular focus on…
August 31, 2026
56 Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
One year after the publication of Gastronomica’s special feature on food and philosophy, Robert T. Valgenti of the Editorial Collective revisits the q…
August 25, 2026
Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies
This is Dr. Swati Joshi's inaugural episode on the New Books Network. In this episode, she interviews Dr. Lucy Jeffery about her monograph, Transdisci…
August 14, 2026
A Perfectionist Impulse
Cultural studies of the nineteenth century often categorize their subjects as being motivated by one of two opposing notions: a wholehearted embrace o…