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Interviews with Historians about their New Books
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Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
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Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books
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Interviews with Scholars of South Asia about their New Books
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Recent New Books Network Episodes
Publication Date | Aug 03, 2024
Duration | 01:05:23
Publication Date | Aug 03, 2024
Duration | 01:05:23
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Corn...
Publication Date | Aug 03, 2024
Duration | 00:46:06
Publication Date | Aug 03, 2024
Duration | 00:46:06
Is Orwell still relevant today?
In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at American University examines the life and writing of Orwell to...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our interview about his recent book, The End of Victory: Prevailing in...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:37:23
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:37:23
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?
With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Vi...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:57:11
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:57:11
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countrie...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:53:15
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:53:15
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking wat...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our interview about his recent book, The End of Victory: Prevailing in...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:42:46
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 00:42:46
Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive explorati...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:06:04
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our interview about his recent book, The End of Victory: Prevailing in...
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:02:56
Publication Date | Aug 02, 2024
Duration | 01:02:56
The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whis...