Podcast Episodes

Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)

This is a very special episode of the New Books Network, as the editor of Conversations with Kiese Laymon (UP of Mississippi, 2025), Dr. Constance Ba…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)

While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Ca…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)

Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—that it was male dominated an…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)

Conspiracy, mutiny and liberation on America’s waterfront by the award-winning author of The Slave Ship.

Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Esca…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Paying Attention with Anya Daly

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Anya Daly.

Dr Anya Daly investigates the intersections of phenomenology with philosophy of mind, the philosophy of…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Zahi Zalloua, "Fanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

n a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)

Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll se…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Why is radio so white? In Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry (Princeton UP, 2025) Laura Garbes, a Sociologist…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)

Inspired by leaders such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, the online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. Dedicated to anti-feminism, these co…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)

What do children believe in? In Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England (Princeton UP, 2025) Anna Strhan, a Reader in t…

8 months, 4 weeks ago