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Check out this week's newsletter! University Press Week Nov 10-14 | Singapore Writer’s Festival Nov 7-16 | Democratic Dialogues from Cornell University’s Brooks Center on Global Democracy | Fast Five with archaeologist Joe Watkins

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Get Ready for University Press Week 2025!
Next week, November 10-14
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Even though it means I'll have to pause my Spinozathon, I'm super excited to read A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by @marcuschown.bsky.social after listening to this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview.
Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Just listened to your @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social pod about the book! Thanks for writing this book & I look forward to reading it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It was such a privilege to talk about Voices of Thunder with Jana Byars on the New Books Network podcast! Link below 🌟📚
Naomi Baker, "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century" (Reaktion Books, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Lorenzo Castellani, Alberto Beneduce: Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy - Routledge, Oct 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Tim Jones
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Shame about the prohibitive price.
Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy
Alberto Beneduce, a prominent banker, policy-maker and technocratic institutions’ builder, held immense power as Fascist Italy's chief banker from 1925 to 1940. Most importantly, he was Mussolini's fi...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Their End Is Our Beginning

a conversation with brian bean about Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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There is a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion of the Deleuze book with Charles Stivale, Dan Smith and Nathan Smith; and a review by Claire Colebrook at NDPR.
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Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Check out this week's newsletter! University Press Week Nov 10-14 | Singapore Writer’s Festival Nov 7-16 | Democratic Dialogues from Cornell University’s Brooks Center on Global Democracy | Fast Five with archaeologist Joe Watkins

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Get Ready for University Press Week 2025!
Next week, November 10-14
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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It’s Friday again so time for a new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ! 🎙️ In this one we talked to Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress. 🌙

You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Ladelle McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025
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Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the links.
Unbecoming Persons
A damning genealogy of modern personhood and a bold vision for a new ethics rooted in belonging rather than individuality.   In the face of ecological crisis, economic injustice, and political violenc...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Thanks so much to @gorenlj.bsky.social for interviewing Jack Greenberg and me about 'Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint' on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Political Science podcast.

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November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Had a wonderful time chatting with Sullivan Summer on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast about my new book *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social. Stay tuned to listen in on our fascinating conversation. 📚🎙️
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Amy Shea discusses her new book TOO POOR TO DIE: THE HIDDEN REALITIES OF DYING IN THE MARGINS with Stephen Pimpare (@stephenpimpare.bsky.social) on the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social):

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November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Brian Baker is interviewed by Rebekah Buchanan on New Books Network about his new book of photographs, "The Road," available on Akashic Books.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Satanic unicorns‽ 😲

Apparently so. Lean more medieval horse history and lore in this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview of Dr. Anastasija Ropa by Dr. Jana Byars about Dr. Ropa's new book "The Medieval Horse" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social / @reaktionbooks.bsky.social). #Booksky
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Medieval History · 11/05/2025 · 40m
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November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Podcast on #DictatingReality with the excellent Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social speaking to Tom & I on everything from Orban's counterfeit public sphere to India's Godi media newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-re...
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, "Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Listen! James Scorer talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the wonderful Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame newbooksnetwork.com/latin-americ...
James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Maya Arad discusses her award-winning THE HEBREW TEACHER on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's Van Leer Institute podcast. Host Renee Garfinkel calls Arad "a singular literary voice whose works have redefined the contours of modern Hebrew literature." Listen here:
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November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Aisha Sasha John is all kinds of wonderful, and I’m excited to share the interview I did with her on The New Books Network about her intuitively gorgeous collection of poetry, total (McClelland and Stewart, 2025).



Listen here:

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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview:
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I spoke with @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social about her FANTASTIC new book "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism. Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I found out that the podcast episodes I hosted for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social got downloaded over 100,000 times 😱 I’m both proud and terrified at the same time.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM