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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
May 29, 2026
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures. I…
May 28, 2026
Stories We Wear
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is known for his outfits. Since rising to become India’s head of government in 2014, photographers and journali…
May 27, 2026
Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine
What if in the age of AI generated content, the most important part of being visible online is just being a human? In this episode of The Publishing P…
May 25, 2026
Archie Bunker for President
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Thi…
May 22, 2026
A Century of Hitchcock
For over a century, Alfred Hitchcock has remained one of cinema's most influential directors. Known as the Master of Suspense, this visionary filmmake…
May 20, 2026
Saving Our Survivors
How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust s…
May 20, 2026
Rebooting Inequality
From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboo…
May 20, 2026
How Film Became History
By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film sti…
May 19, 2026
Rainforest Radio
In Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (U Arizona Press, 2025), Dr. Georgia C. Ennis provides a compr…
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
Rainbow Wisdom
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Mischa Oak about his book, Rainbow Wisdom: 18 LGBTQ Life Lessons for Everyone (Page Two Book Inc.…
May 16, 2026
Film Diplomacy
Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations (Columbia UP, 2026) offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations an…
May 15, 2026
Reparative Media
Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Reparat…
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…
May 9, 2026
The Complicit Lens
Robin Andersen's latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (OR Books, 2026), is a forensic and unflinching exami…
May 9, 2026
This Time
Written for educators, scholars, graduate students, and readers engaged in Holocaust education, genocide studies, history, ethics, religious studies, …
May 6, 2026
Dangerous Creations
Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France (U Toronto Press, 2025) presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle F…
May 4, 2026
The Religion Department
The Religion Department is an online learning platform dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion, created by the team behind Religion …
May 3, 2026
Media Rurality
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…
April 29, 2026
Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market?
What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strategy isn't social media — it's your local library? In the debut episode of The Publishing Pl…