New Books Network

5477 Episodes

1. Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)

   Published: 5/20/2025
2. Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"

   Published: 5/20/2025
3. Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/19/2025
4. Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/19/2025
5. Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics

   Published: 5/19/2025
6. From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak

   Published: 5/19/2025
7. Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/19/2025
8. Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/19/2025
9. Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

   Published: 5/19/2025
10. Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman

    Published: 5/19/2025
11. Chana B. Getter, "Mapito: Embrace Yourself" (BookBaby, 2025)

    Published: 5/19/2025
12. Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/19/2025
13. Manahil Bandukwala, "Heliotropia" (Brick Books, 2024)

    Published: 5/18/2025
14. The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order

    Published: 5/18/2025
15. Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)

    Published: 5/18/2025
16. Andrew Holter, ed., "Going Around: Selected Journalism / Murray Kempton" (Seven Stories Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
17. Qingfei Yin, "State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/18/2025
18. Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
19. Betsy Bird, "Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme" (Union Square Books, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
20. Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025