Support Kritika | Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!
- Art
- Architecture
- Children's Literature
- Comics and Graphic Novels
- Film
- Digital Humanities
- Fantasy
- Folklore
- Food
- Game Studies
- Historical Fiction
- Library Science
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Museum Studies
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Photography
- Poetry
- Somatics
- Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer
- The Ohio University Press Podcast
- Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
- Shakespeare For All
- Latin American Studies
- Young Adult Literature
- Women's History
- Academic Partners
- UP Partners
- Special Series
- Science Fiction
- Psychoanalysis
- Finance
- Economics
- Geography
- Sports
- The Second Cold War Observatory
- Rutgers University Press Podcast
- The Ohio State University Press Podcast
- Self-Control Through Torah
- Almost Good Catholics
- Mexican Studies
- Big Ideas
- Gender Studies
- America and Beyond with Paul Starobin
- Celebration Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Public Health
- Genocide Studies
- Psychology
- Leuven University Press Podcast
- University of South Carolina Press Podcast
- MIT Press Podcast
- Pacific Studies
- The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
- SSEAC Stories
- NBN Book of the Day
- A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler
- Co-Authored
- Science & Technology
- Peoples & Places
- Artificial Intelligence
- Higher Education
- Science
- African Studies
- Anthropology on Air
- Soundscapes NYC
- The CUA Press Podcast
- Polish Studies
- Cover Story
- Human Rights
- Science, Technology, and Society
- The University Press of Kentucky Podcast
- Taiwan on Air
- Historical Materialism
- Asian Review of Books
- Korean Studies
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Systems and Cybernetics
- Journalism
- Talking Thai Politics
- History Ex Silo
- The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
- Burned by Books
- Southeast Asian Studies
- American Politics
- Language and Translation
- Towards Knowledge
- The University Press of Colorado Podcast
- Global Media & Communication
- In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
- Interpretive Political and Social Science
- Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
- South Asian Studies
- Anthropology
- Law
- American Studies
- Library of America presents LOA LIVE
- Great New American Essays
- Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
- Archaeology
- Technology
- American South
- African American Studies
- The Ideas Letter Podcast
- Gastronomica
- Writers & Ideas: A NewSouth Publishing Podcast
- Think About It
- Animal Studies
- History
- Education
- The Harvard Brief
- Revolutionary America
- Physics and Chemistry
- Sound Studies
- Popular Culture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Higher Education
- Science
- Anthropology on Air
- Soundscapes NYC
- The CUA Press Podcast
- Polish Studies
- Cover Story
- Human Rights
- Science, Technology, and Society
- The University Press of Kentucky Podcast
- Taiwan on Air
- Historical Materialism
- Asian Review of Books
- Korean Studies
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- History
- Education
- Revolutionary America
- Physics and Chemistry
- Sound Studies
- Popular Culture
- The Ideas Letter Podcast
- Gastronomica
- Writers & Ideas: A NewSouth Publishing Podcast
- The Vault
- Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
- Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
- Think About It
- Business, Management, and Marketing
- Animal Studies
- LGBTQ+ Studies
- American West
- The Truth About Bullshit
- Dialogues on Southeast Asia
- Turkish Studies
- High Theory
- Why We Argue
- History
- Landscape Architecture
- Media and Communications
- Ancient History
- Asian American Studies
- National Security
- Democracy Dialogues: Presented by the Cornell Brooks Center on Global Democracy
- Disorder
- The University of Alberta Press Podcast
- Writ Large
- Ukrainian Studies
- How to Be Wrong
- Mormonism
- Critical Theory
- Philanthropy
- Arguing History
- The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Podcast
- The University of Arizona Press Podcast
- Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
- Disability Studies
- Ideas Roadshow Podcast
- NBN Seminar
- Western European Studies
- Philosophy
- Australian and New Zealand Studies
- Biography & Memoir
- I Heart 90s History
- The Caste Pod
- New Books with Miranda Melcher
- Behind the Book: A Nebraska UP Podcast
- Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
- World Affairs
- Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
- Diplomatic History
- British Studies
- On the Cusp: Between Strategy and Ethics
- CEU Review of Books
- Behind the Cover with Indiana University Press
- The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
- Education
- Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast
- Canadian Studies
- Early Modern History
- Political Science
- In the Room
- The Common Magazine
- Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science
- Economic and Business History
- Caribbean Studies
- Concept : Art
- Beyond Pages: A SUNY Press Podcast
- Practical History
- International Horizons
- Politics & Polemics
- Central Asian Studies
- General History
- The Harvard Brief
- Biblical Studies
- Revolutionary America
- Physics and Chemistry
- Sound Studies
- Popular Culture
- European Politics
- Medieval History
- Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
- Biblical Studies
- Eastern European Studies
- Christian Studies
- UCL Press Podcast
- The Chair: In The Room at the Fed
- CEU Press Podcast
- Madison's Notes
- Entrepreneurship and Leadership
- Catholic Studies
- French Studies
- Military History
- Sociology
- UCL Press Podcast
- Oceanic Studies
- The University of Chicago Press Podcast
- Off the Record with UT Press
- Ministry of Ideas
- Ethnographic Marginalia
- Academic Life
- Scholarly Communication
- Revolutionary America
- Physics and Chemistry
- German Studies
- Sound Studies
- Indian Religions
- The Edinburgh University Press Podcast
- Mobilities and Methods
- Iberian Studies
- Islamic Studies
- Florida Press Podcast
- Nomads, Past and Present
- India Studies
- Jewish Studies
- From the Square: An NYU Press Podcast
- Nordic Asia Podcast
- Indian Ocean World
- Religion
- University of Georgia Press Podcast
- Novel Dialogue
- Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
- Indigenous Studies
- Georgetown University Press Podcast
- NYIH Conversations
- Iranian Studies
- Secularism
- The Goldsmiths Press Podcast
- On Religion
- Irish Studies
- World Christianity
- The Harvard Education Press Podcast
- The Pop Culture Professors
- Israel Studies
- Peoples & Things
- Italian Studies
- Popular Culture
- Neuroscience
African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African American and Black studies about their new books.
June 2, 2026
On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship
Wide ranging interview with Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II, Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies, the University of Miami. Interview expl…
June 2, 2026
Something We Said
The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only…
May 30, 2026
Ladder or Lottery
In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a simple…
May 30, 2026
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’…
May 29, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue…
May 29, 2026
Nourishing Networks
For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echo…
May 28, 2026
The Instigators
Black women have always been the most relentless instigators for change—building a democracy for all. In The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Es…
May 28, 2026
The Door of No Return
In The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black (Temple University Press, 2026), Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy …
May 27, 2026
Segregation Games
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox i…
May 25, 2026
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
May 24, 2026
Reverberations of Culture
Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns (Routledge, 2026) by Dr. Shane Br…
May 23, 2026
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Mary Freeman, associate professor of history at the University of Maine, joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Abolitionists and the Politics o…
May 23, 2026
Take Freedom
In 1822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could strike, and many were tried and executed in what…
May 22, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and …
May 19, 2026
The Overseer Class
“The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. ‘If you must call a cop,’ we said in thos…
May 18, 2026
Fear and Fury
Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026) recou…
May 17, 2026
Mississippi Law
Justin Randolph, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, joins Michael Stauch to discuss Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in Ameri…
May 13, 2026
From Black Power to Black Studies
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential politica…
May 12, 2026
The War Within a War
Award-winning author Wil Haygood joins Michael Stauch to discuss The War within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home (Knopf, 2026) his new…
May 12, 2026
Act Black
Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmf…