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  1. Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next" (Princeton UP, 2026)

    There is a widespread sense throughout the developed world that progress towards a better society has stalled. Many countries, including the UK, have experienced persistent economic stagnation accompanied by declining trust in institutions.

  2. Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

    Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780197828885) (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharika Pandit, covers the journey of how critical

  3. A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)

    The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781804296967)Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781804296967) (Verso Books, 2026) is the definitive history of

  4. Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

    This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one. The serial is everywhere. Commonly identified

  5. Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

    Baudelaire's Objects (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9798765150825) (Bloomsbury, 2026) examines Baudelaire's multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as the ways his poems resha

  6. Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time" (Routledge, 2024)

    Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780367418540)(Routledge, 2024) examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments: unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed ev

  7. Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)

    Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century. He published hundreds of articles on modern history and culture, and his books became canonical works and bestsellers on both sides of the At

  8. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)

    Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Cannabis sativa L. Starting in the eighteenth century, British India's colonial administrators sou

  9. Roderick Beaton, "Europe: A New History" (Allen Lane, 2026)

    What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe: A New History (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781541603806)(Allen Lane, 2026), award-winning historian Roderick Bea

  10. A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

    Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community and friendship across political lines and in new creative ways. How may we bridge that gap? To help an

  11. Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

    A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against C

  12. Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina eds.,"Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital" (gta Verlag, 2026)

    Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital (https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_e9995b1f-5986-4fe2-9b6d-4cb4f1bbc2cf) (gta Verlag, 2026) challenges the conventional assumption that architects and planners are the principal a

  13. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)

    N. Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes an extensive range of sources. Sutanto unfolds Bavinck's understanding of what he considered

  14. Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)

    In Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781478032038) (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place wh

  15. The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller

    Jonathan Fuller (https://www.hps.pitt.edu/people/jonathan-fuller)’s The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780190066147) (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a philosophical

  16. Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

    The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9783031809071) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) promises to transform a decades old debate in literary studies about the relation between structure and agency, form an

  17. Oli Mould, "Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future" (Manchester UP, 2026)

    What is the future for cities? In Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781526167309) (Manchester University Press, 2026) Oli Mould (https://bsky.app/profile/olimould.bsky.social), a Professor o

  18. Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)

    What does it really mean to go "beyond the letter of the law"? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with scholar Deborah Barer to discuss her book Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/

  19. Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital" (Verso, 2025)

    The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s. Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopol

  20. Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)

    Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic : (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/97

  21. Andres Saenz de Sicilia, "Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society" (Brill, 2024)

    Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9798888905586) is the latest book from Dr Andres Saenz De Sicilia, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeaster

  22. Katharina Stevens, "The Ethics of Argumentation" (Routledge, 2025)

    The Ethics of Argumentation (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781041073413) (Routledge, 2025) offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded i

  23. Valena Beety, "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity" (New Press, 2026)

    A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four women are convicted of horrific crimes against children they never touched, based on junk

  24. Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont eds., "Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities" (Stanford UP, 2026)

    The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the world's most impenetrable autocracies. Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archi

  25. Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)

    How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781945861338) (Princeton University Press, 2026), Paul Langley (https://bsky.app/

  26. Toby Miller and Joan Pedro Carañana, "Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

    Just how much damage is sport doing to the planet? In Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They? (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9783032142061) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) Toby Miller, (https://www.tobymiller.org/) Profesor Distinguido at the Institut

  27. Todd McGowan, "Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish" (Polity Press, 2026)

    Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781509573363) (Polity Press, 2026) contends that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests plays a dominant role in our lives. The idea of a primary drive

  28. Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)

    The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such as Sean Brock and René Redzepi. But Lily Kelting observes the popularity of heritage foods

  29. Elad Lapidot, "State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel" (Indiana UP, 2025)

    Elad Lapidot is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Lille, France. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowledge and politics. Among his publications: State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel (

  30. Timothy Mitchell, "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow" (Verso, 2026)

    Stealing the future and concealing the theft—capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon Democracy Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact,

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