New Books Network

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson

The integration of podcasting into academic scholarship offers a vital mechanism for dismantling the insular nature of higher education and reconnecting institutions with the broader public. Traditional academic reward structures, which prioritize the monograph, often stifle innovation; however, shifting these metrics ...

Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Michael Kimmel, "Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)

Jonathan Sherry, "Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic" (Lexington, 2018)

Fatimah Williams, "Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Teresa Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)

Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)

Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)

10.1 "Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions:” Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)

Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton

Academics increasingly utilize narrative audio to produce original scholarship, challenging traditional hierarchies that prioritize peer-reviewed articles over public-facing media. This transition requires a fundamental shift in how researchers structure arguments, moving away from bald statements toward suspenseful, l...

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life