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August 31, 2026
The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp
The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp (Hamilton Books, 2025) explores the cultural resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp, emphasiz…
August 29, 2026
Lessons for a Warming Planet
The relationship between humans and the environment in the United States reflects tales of countless contrasting and overlapping trends, movements, an…
August 27, 2026
Protecting Workers?
In our recent conversation about Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia (Helsinki UP, 2026), the editors Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfri…
August 23, 2026
American Metropolis
Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City (Cambridge…
August 21, 2026
Scattered Steel
Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center (Cornell UP, 2026) traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trad…
August 19, 2026
Routes of Taiwan Tea
From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and…
August 17, 2026
Tel Rehov
This interview with Professor Amihai Mazar was conducted by Željko Stanojević for the New Books Network. The conversation focuses on Tel Reḥov: A Bron…
August 9, 2026
Postcapitalist cities
What is the future for cities? In Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future (Manchester University Press, 2026) Oli Mould, a Professor of C…
August 3, 2026
The British Cemetery
Roger Bowdler and Brent Elliott’s The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture, published by Historic England (2026), traces the history o…
July 18, 2026
Sand, Snow, and Stardust
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s thr…
July 16, 2026
Survival at Treblinka
On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during …
July 11, 2026
Deadly Divide
As many as ten thousand people attempt to illegally cross the border between the US and Mexico each month, braving deserts, rivers, and other environm…
July 6, 2026
Harlem in Disorder
The violence that spread across Harlem on the night of March 19, 1935 was the first large-scale racial disorder in the United States in more than a d…
July 4, 2026
Neighborhoods Matter
Participation in official governmental institutions and activities has declined dramatically. Americans are less inclined to express trust in, or coop…
June 29, 2026
Dream Road to Pan America
A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt…
June 11, 2026
The Invention of Order
In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial orga…
June 7, 2026
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin
"Deep Time," a way of understanding the distant past popularized in the late 20th century by the writer John McPhee, changes our perspective on histor…
June 7, 2026
Spectropolis
In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic pow…
May 15, 2026
Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
In this episode hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Amani Hassani, to discuss her most recent work around Islamophobia and Musli…
April 12, 2026
Monarchies of Extraction
In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the Gul…