New Books Network
Pitch a Book!
Hosts
Subscribe
Arts & Letters
Architecture
Art
Digital Humanities
Fantasy
Film
Folklore
Food
Historical Fiction
Literary Studies
Literature
Music
Performing Arts
Photography
Poetry
Popular Culture
Science Fiction
Peoples & Places
African Studies
African American Studies
American Studies
American South
American West
Asian American Studies
Australian and New Zealand Studies
British Studies
Caribbean Studies
Central Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
East Asian Studies
Eastern European Studies
European Studies
French Studies
German Studies
Indian Ocean World
Israel Studies
Italian Studies
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Latino Studies
Latin American Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Native American Studies
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
South Asian Studies
World Affairs
Politics & Society
Animal Studies
Anthropology
Archaeology
Arguing History
Biography
Communications
Critical Theory
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Education
Economics
Finance
Geography
Gender Studies
Genocide Studies
History
Intellectual History
Journalism
Language
Law
LGBTQ+ Studies
Military History
National Security
Philosophy
Political Science
Politics
Politics & Polemics
Public Policy
Sociology
Sound Studies
Sports
Religion & Faith
Biblical Studies
Buddhist Studies
Christian Studies
Indian Religions
Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
Religion
Secularism
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
Science & Technology
Environmental Studies
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Science
Science, Technology, and Society
Systems and Cybernetics
Technology
Special Series
Academic Life
Asian Review of Books
Big Ideas
Celebration Studies
Co-Authored
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Interpretive Political and Social Science
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast
Kurdish Studies
Landscape Architecture
Mobilities and Methods
Mormonism
NBN Book of the Day
NBN Seminar
Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler
Postscript
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Scholarly Communication
SSEAC Stories
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
Third World Nationalism
Ethnographic Marginalia
The Common Magazine
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Journalism
Science
February 22, 2021
Viral BS
Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
Seema Yasmin
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Can your zip code predict when you will die? Should you space out childhood vaccines? Does talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend …
Subscribe to
Journalism
on the NBN
RSS
Spotify
Stitcher
Apple
Gender Studies
February 15, 2021
MeToo
How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Hosted by Jana Byars
We are joined today by Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in the writers’ heaven that is Iowa City …
Jewish Studies
February 5, 2021
Transatlantic Russian Jewishness
Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Gennady Estraikh
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the …
Asian Review of Books
February 4, 2021
Field Notes from a Pandemic
A Journey Through a World Suspended
Ethan Lou
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
We are just over a year from when global news first reported a new type of pneumonia emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan. A lockdown of Wuhan on January …
Latin American Studies
February 1, 2021
Citizens of Scandal
Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
Vanessa Freije
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke University Press, 2020), Vanessa Freije develops a new rich thesis about the role of the press in Mexican …
Animal Studies
January 28, 2021
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
Matthew Gavin Frank
Hosted by Emily Anthes
For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew …
Science
January 25, 2021
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
Brian Deer
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London hospital claim a link …
Film
January 11, 2021
Little Lindy Is Kidnapped
How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century
Thomas Doherty
Hosted by Joel Tscherne
In Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (Columbia University Press, 2020), Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the …
African American Studies
December 22, 2020
Pleasure in the News
African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press
Kim T. Gallon
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020), Dr. Kim Gallon examines how Black newspaper editors and journalists created and fostered …
Communications
December 10, 2020
Smoke and Mirrors
How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
Gemma Milne
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media, or grab the attention of investors, or convince …
Scholarly Communication
December 7, 2020
Scholarly Communications
A Discussion with Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of 'Nature Communications'
Elisa De Ranieri
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of Nature Communications. We talk about knowing the research you have done, but communicating the message you want said. Interviewer: "When …
Sports
November 27, 2020
Our Last Season
A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship
Harvey Araton
Hosted by Paul Knepper
Harvey Araton’s new book Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship (Penguin, 2020), reads like a mix between Tuesdays with Morrie and a sequel to his book When …
SSEAC Stories
November 19, 2020
Social Media, Grassroots Activism and Disinformation in Southeast Asia
A Discussion with Dr Aim Sinpeng and Dr Ross Tapsell
Aim Sinpeng and Ross Tapsell
Hosted by Thushara Dibley
Social media has become a crucial avenue for political discourse in Southeast Asia, given its potential as a “liberation technology” in both democratising and authoritarian states. Yet the growing decline …
Anthropology
November 18, 2020
Manufacturing Celebrity
Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood
Vanessa Diaz
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood …
History
November 6, 2020
Cocaine and Surfing
A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair
Chas Smith
Hosted by Michael Vann
Surfers are the ultimate bad boys, living the counter-culture life of decadence and hedonism as they travel the world in search of the perfect wave, partying hard along the way …
American Studies
October 29, 2020
Dead Tree Media
Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America
Michael Stamm
Hosted by Dexter Fergie
Michael Stamm’s book Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) begins with the simple but thought-provoking premise that, not too long ago, newspapers …
American Studies
October 28, 2020
Democracy Without Journalism?
Confronting the Misinformation Society
Victor Pickard
Hosted by Bruce Wark
"Few freedoms in the United States are as cherished as freedom of the press." So begins Chapter One of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society (Oxford University Press, 2020) …
African American Studies
October 7, 2020
Louis Austin and the Carolina Times
A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Jerry Gershenhorn
Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) by Jerry Gershenhorn is a history of the struggle for …
Communications
September 29, 2020
Scholarly Communications
An Interview with Helen Pearson of 'Nature'
Helen Pearson
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Nature is the premier weekly journal of science, the journal where specialists go to read and publish primary research in their fields. But Nature is also a science magazine, a …
Popular Culture
September 25, 2020
Pulp Vietnam
War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines
Gregory A. Daddis
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gregory Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines …
Load More