New Books Network

Gajendran Ayyathurai, "Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India: Deep Resistance Against Caste" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)

Tyler Girard, "Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Carrie LeVan, "Neighborhoods Matter: How Place and People Affect Political Participation" (NYU Press, 2026)

Dmytro Soloviov, "Ukrainian Modernism: Modernist Architecture of Ukraine" (Fuel, 2025)

Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)

250 Years of Special Providence: On American Grand Strategy Since the Declaration with Walter Russell Mead

Making Microbes Explicit

Ysabelle Cheung, "Patchwork Dolls" (Blair, 2026)

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #3 with Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne

Integrating narrative audio into scholarly research transforms science communication by shifting focus from purely objective, "clear" findings to the inherent messiness, doubt, and human experience of scientific discovery. Audio’s unique capacity for intimacy allows researchers to build trust with audiences, revealing ...

Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #3 with Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne

Narrative audio offers a powerful medium for humanizing scientific research by moving beyond the rigid "science is clear" paradigm to embrace the inherent messiness, doubt, and human experience of discovery. By inviting audiences into the collaborative and uncertain processes behind scientific work, researchers can bui...

Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

A.D. Carson, "Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)

Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)

Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

Anna Terwiel offers A Moment of No to the Prison-Industrial Complex (JP)