Help Support the NBN on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

New Books Network
Ministry of Ideas January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …

Subscribe to

on the NBN

Nomads, Past and Present December 27, 2022

An Introduction to Digital Nomads

Maggie Freeman

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault September 21, 2018

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Intellectual History June 3, 2023

The Evolution of Pragmatism in India

Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction

Scott R. Stroud

Hosted by Kalyani Kalyani
Scott R. Stroud's The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a philosophical engagement with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s life and …
Business, Management, and Marketing June 3, 2023

Both/And Thinking

Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
In a world of either/or tradeoffs, it sometimes pays to explore the possibility of and/or. By changing our perspective and embracing paradox, we can see possibilities that were obscured by …
Asian American Studies June 3, 2023

The Allure of Empire

American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion

Chris Suh

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made …
African American Studies June 3, 2023

Workers of All Colors Unite

Race and the Origins of American Socialism

Lorenzo Costaguta

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the …
Early Modern History June 3, 2023

We, the King

Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World

Adrian Masters

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Adrian Masters challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and …
MIT Press Podcast June 3, 2023

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration

A Discussion with Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Hosted by MIT Press
Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue …
Psychoanalysis June 3, 2023

The Queerness of Childhood

Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass

Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), discusses her thinking …
Anthropology June 3, 2023

Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero

Hosted by María Camila Núñez Gómez
In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones June 3, 2023

The Future of Big Finance

A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova

Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more than an occasional aberration …
Middle Eastern Studies June 3, 2023

Red Star over the Black Sea

Nazim Hikmet and His Generation

James H. Meyer

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the …
Disability Studies June 3, 2023

Dyslexia

A History

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling

Hosted by Shu Wan
In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his …
Military History June 2, 2023

I Saw Death Coming

A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

Kidada E. Williams

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
Listen:
The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked …
Taiwan on Air June 2, 2023

The Suspended Island

Taiwan and the Balance of the World

Stefano Pelaggi

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
Listen:
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Stefano Pelaggi, Adjunct Professor at Sapienza University in Rome. The two discuss Dr Pelaggi’s most recent book, L’Isola Sospesa. Taiwan e …
Nordic Asia Podcast June 2, 2023

Recentering Pacific Asia

Regional China and World Order

Brantly Womack

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Listen:
The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. In this conversation, Julie …
MIT Press Podcast June 2, 2023

You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

Hosted by MIT Press
Listen:
Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here. Our media environment is …