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  • #1054
    Tuesday · 49 min

    Border Land: Frontiers of Early England with Ryan Lavelle (Yale UP, 2026)

    The earliest written record of a political boundary in England dates from around 880, when King Alfred and Danish warlord Guthrum formalised a legal treaty to divide lands between them. How did Alfred and his descendants think about the borders of “English” territory? And what can these markers tell us about the English kingdom itself? In Border Land: Frontiers of Early England (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Ryan Lavelle takes readers on a journey around the borders and edges of early medieval Engl

  • #1055
    Tuesday · 42 min

    Seeing Red: Spies, Lies and My So-Called Life as a Diplomat (Seedworks, 2026)

    Have you ever had one of those days when you’ve had to explain to a leading Senator that the woman approaching his table is actually a Soviet spy hoping to bed and blackmail him? Well, Danny Grossman has. As a twenty-six-year-old diplomat serving in Leningrad during the Cold War, Grossman’s phones were tapped, his home was bugged, his neighbor went out the window, his houseguest was attacked, his consulate was rocked by something called Chernobyl, his movements were tracked by an ambitious youn

  • #1052
    Tuesday · 1 hr 15 min

    Ritual: An Ancient Jewish Perspective with Naftali S. Cohn (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

    A comprehensive study of the Mishnah that argues it manifests an implicit theory of what performing rituals accomplishes Jews are known for having many ritual practices. Many of these come from the Bible, but Jewish ritual practice as we know it today is as much a product of the earliest rabbis who lived in the late-second and early-third centuries. These rabbis created the text known as the Mishnah, which collects, develops, and records in great detail rules about the proper way to carry out t

  • #1048
    Tuesday · 47 min

    The Brightness with Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Co., 2026)

    From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will u

  • #1053
    Tuesday · 47 min

    Digging Beneath Bones with teri elam (Finishing Line Press, 2026)

    Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam’s debut poetry collection, travels through memory, lineage, rupture, and return, illuminating the body that navigates this rite of passage—a Black, Southern woman of a certain age—moving through the comfort and discomfort of relationships, dysfunction, family, truth, and self. It explores memory as a concept, a need, and a loss. A portrait of caretakers, aunties, nieces, and Black boy joy, it highlights meaning through music, television, myth, prayer, and the sma

  • #1040
    Monday · 38 min

    The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History with Rachel A. Shelden (UNC Press, 2026)

    In this episode, Matthew Mason (Professor of History at Brigham Young University) interviews Rachel Shelden (Associate Professor of History and Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University) about her new book, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History (UNC Press, 2026). Today’s Supreme Court justices bristle at the label “politicians in robes,” insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for the first century of the nation

  • #1041
    Monday · 37 min

    Cinderella: A Cultural History with Michelle Anya Anjirbag (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026)

    A glass slipper, a fairy godmother, a transformed pumpkin, lizard footmen and seamstress mice: these familiar images evoke a very particular story, one where hopes and dreams for a new life might come true. Adaptations of Cinderella branch out through history and across the world, from early illustrated books to modern children’s and young adult novels, and contemporary films. Cinderella: A Cultural History (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026) by Dr. Michelle Anya Anjirbag aims to answer the ques

  • #1038
    Monday · 1 hr 20 min

    The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture with Erika Balsom (Columbia UP, 2026)

    A selection of this criticism has just been published by Columbia University Press as The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture (2026). The book is a rich feast, exploring an idiosyncratic selection of films and a wide range of issues in contemporary film cultures: from the stakes of observation to the effects of digital technologies, from the slowness of “slow cinema” to the renaissance of repertory cinema, and much more beside.

  • #1044
    Monday · 46 min

    The Concept of Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam with Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer (de Gruyter, 2025)

    Is tolerance an achievement of secular modernity that religion has always resisted? The Concept of Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (De Gruyter, 2026), the seventh volume in the Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses series, says the answer is more complicated. Edited by Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer of FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, the book gives one substantial chapter to each tradition and closes with an epilogue in which the editors compare the three.

  • #1046
    Monday · 41 min

    AI for the Information Professional: A Critical Guide with Andrew Cox (Facet, 2026)

    In AI for the Information Professional: A Critical Guide (Facet, 2026), Andrew Cox invites library and information professionals to reflect on the exciting and troubling concept of AI and the impact it is having on their work and the library and information sector more broadly. Blending practical tips and activities with critical insight, the book equips readers to make informed choices about when - and how - to use AI, answering a range of key questions.

  • #1047
    Monday · 51 min

    The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln with Saladin Ambar (Diversion Books, 2025)

    Saladin Ambar, a political scientist and senior scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics, has authored a fascinating and propulsive new book focusing on Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. The book, Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes that Shaped Abraham Lincoln (Diversion Books, 2025), focuses on the violent events that transpired in the 1830s that contributed to Abraham Lincoln’

  • #1045
    Monday · 1 hr 7 min

    Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity with Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson (Lexington Books, 2024)

    Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century.

  • #1036
    Sunday · 51 min

    Crossing The Gap: Healing Epidemics and Inequalities in a Divided City with David A Ansell (U Chicago Press, 2026)

    Two girls are born in the same Chicago hospital. Their neighborhoods—just seven train stops apart—will shape their futures and help determine how long they live. One will celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday. The other will die before sixty-five. This is the death gap: lives lost too soon. Crossing the Gap: Healing Epidemics and Inequalities in a Divided City (U Chicago Press, 2026) asks how a city with world-class hospitals can tolerate an epidemic of premature death—and tells the story of the

  • #1037
    Sunday · 45 min

    Mao: Power and Contradiction with Kerry Brown (Reaktion Books, 2026)

    Mao Zedong lived one of the most epic and influential lives of the twentieth century. His impact on the People's Republic of China was vast. Half a century after his passing, he remains a divisive and controversial figure. Kerry Brown's Mao: Power and Contradiction (Reaktion Books, 2026) gives an accessible narrative of his life, from the fall of the Qing in the early part of the twentieth century to the long years in which Mao Zedong struggled not only to ensure the Communist Party of China sur

  • #1035
    Sunday · 34 min

    Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View with Mark Kinet (Routledge, 2026)

    Dr Mark Kinet (MD) discusses Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View (Routledge, 2026), published by Routledge in 2026. This book is a psychoanalytic foray into the rhetorics of struggle which shape love, desire and their production. Through readings of Freud, Lacan, Winnicott and Klein, it explores how the psyche is shaped by the complexities involved in coming to love and be loved. Later chapters examine how aspects of modern culture have introduced new modes of desire a

  • #1032
    Sunday · 54 min

    The Capitalist Era with Jeremy Adelman (Princeton UP, 2026)

    Jeremy Adelman’s The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind (Princeton University Press, 2026) puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic, intellectual, and environmental history, the book tells the epic story of the forces that, since the late eighteenth century, have transformed the world into a single but fractured survival unit that is integrated by exchange and flow, yet divided by suspicion and fear. It is a

  • #1034
    Sunday · 51 min

    The Tablet Computer: The Idea of a Machine with Elizabeth R. Petrick (JHU Press, 2026)

    Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented an ambitious—and often unrealized—vision of personal computing. The Tablet Computer: The Idea of a Machine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026) traces the long history of this idea, from early conceptual designs in the 1970s to the consumer devices of the twenty-first century. Dr. Elizabeth R. Petrick examines the tablet as a shifting concept shaped by expectations about learning, productivity, accessibility, and human

  • #1043
    Sunday · 46 min

    In Search of the Perfect Romanian with Marius Turda (CEU Press, 2026)

    In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast host Andrea Talabér talked to Marius Turda about his new book, In Search of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania. We discussed the importance of the social and medical sciences in understanding Romanian nationalism, the intellectual sources of Romanian nationalist thought, and the various discussions surrounding biopolitical debates in interwar Romania amongst other topics.

  • #1030
    Sunday · 47 min

    Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC with Allie Martin (Oxford UP, 2025)

    In Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC, (Oxford UP, 2025), author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how Black people experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Drawing from music, interviews, soundscape recordings, and more, Martin argues that gentrification ultimately serves to silence some voices and amplify others.

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