New Books Network
Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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- Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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- last modified
- 2025-01-04 20:41
- last episode published
- 2025-01-04 09:00
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| 2025-01-04 |
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020) As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at its inception. In their engaging book Twitter: A Biography (... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019) Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing. T... |
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| 2025-01-04 | In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020) dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Sov... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Jie Li, "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (Duke UP, 2020) In Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020) Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and it... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020) Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention of expressive practices and community-b... |
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| 2025-01-04 | Joshua Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America was published by Basic Books in 2021, and tells a sprawling history of slave traders in America. Often presented as outcasts and social pariahs, slave traders were oft... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020) Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific and brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in his... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020) The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of d... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Jonathan Sacks, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Genesis" (Koren, 2024) The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel offers an innovative and refreshing approach to the Hebrew Bible. By fusing extraordinary findings by modern scholars on the ancient Near East with the original Hebrew text and a brand new English translation by R... |
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| 2025-01-03 | Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ... |
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