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Seniorland: Aging in a Retirement Metropolis with Galit Nimrod (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Towards a Poetics of Illness Experience with Laurence J. Kirmayer (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (Brandeis UP, 2026)
The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World with Barry R Davis (JHU Press, 2026)
Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)
Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)
The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa with Samuel D. Anderson (Cornell UP, 2026)
Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences with Bryan Batista-Thomas (Routledge, 2026)
Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America with Marie Gottschalk (Princeton UP, 2026)
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America with Jacob Ware (Columbia UP, 2024)
Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation with Dan Degerman (Routledge, 2026)
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics with Natalie Bennett (Routledge, 2026)
Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters with Alpesh Maisuria and Grant Banfield (Routledge, 2022)
Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Illinois Press, 2026)
Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform with Charles West (Oxford UP, 2025)
An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa with Elisa Prosperetti (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parash with David Bashevkin (Maggid, 2026)
Mistranslation with Madeleine Moss (U Iowa Press, 2026)
David Bentley Hart on Life, Literature, and Baseball (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing with Katherine L. Alexander (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalman Weiser (Wayne State UP, 2026)
The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Dish with Nancy Jo Cullen (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026)
Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings with Ken Dark (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa with Matthew P. Fitzpatrick (Oxford UP, 2025)
The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts
The Examination of Religion (Dharmaparīkṣā): A Jain Tradition of Narrative Adaptations with Heleen De Jonckheere (Brill, 2026)
Resurrection on Trial (with Peter D. Martino, esq.): A Law Professor Weighs the Evidence with Peter D. Martino
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)
A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health with Susan Kaplan (Island Press, 2025)
The Supernatural Public Square: On Religious Experience in the Modern Age with Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize with Patrick M. Gallagher (Columbia UP, 2026)
To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Think of England: Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination with Paul Kléber Monod (Cambridge UP, 2026)
The Art of Conjuring with SL Carroll (Terrazzo Editions, 2026)
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)
Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession with Nicolas Guilhot (Harvard UP, 2026)
Women in Comics: Iconic Characters and Influential Creators 1923-Today with Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity with Samar Abdel-Rahman (American U of Cairo Press, 2026)
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire with Gunja SenGupta (U California Press, 2023)
Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles with Carol Loeb Shloss
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries with Andrew Hui (Princeton UP, 2026)
If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories with Malon Edwards (Fireside Fiction Company, 2023)
Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values with Julien Mailland (MIT Press, 2026)
Weapons
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024 with Amy King (Cambridge UP, 2026)
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts with Michael Khodarkovsky (Yale UP, 2026)
All Around Is Fairy Ground: Pleasure and the Regency Garden with Timothy Mowl (Reaktion, 2026)
The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East with Nicholas Morton (Pegasus, 2026)
Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue with Cyprian Consiglio (Orbis Books, 2025)
The Stitches Between Us with Taylor D Lott (Hawes & Jenkins, 2025)
Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution with Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia (UNC Press, 2026)
Wickhills with Premee Mohamed (Tor Books, 2026)
Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion
Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall with Stephen Wade
Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species with Lee Raye (Reaktion, 2026)
The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives with Michael Hallsworth (MIT Press, 2026)
The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia with David Lowe (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros
The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa with Adam Rovner (U California Press, 2025)
Still with Joanna Cockerline (The Porcupine's Quill, 2025)
Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend with Jeremy Harte (Reaktion, 2026)
Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Who Gets to Write History? Wikibiases.org by Shlomit Aharoni Lir
Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Buttar (Osprey, 2025)
The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
The Integrity Compass: Leading with Ethics in a Changing World with Massoud Amin (Wisdom Editions, 2026)
A Mellified Redemption? Learning to Live with a Pest Through Spotted Lanternfly Honey
India, China, and Climate Change Governance: Leadership and Responsibility in the Asian Global South with Amit Ranjan and Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska (Routledge, 2026)
Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 with Rebecca Kobrin (Harvard UP, 2026)
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurwa (U California Press, 2025)
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night with Julian Sancton
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination with N.S. Gundur
How Girls Achieve
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)
Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His Presidency with Joel Nelson (Public Affairs, 2026)
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia with Iftekhar Iqbal (Stanford UP, 2025)
Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future with Tom Feiling (Allen Lane, 2025)
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America with Nicholas P. Wood (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life with James Gavin (Equinox, 2026)
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Ilan Stavans on Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation
The Immortal Woman with Su Chang (House of Anansi Press, 2025)
Transient Becoming: Self-Improvement and Capitalist Virtuousness in Contemporary China with Gil Hizi (NUS Press, 2026)
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War with Jason Bell (Hanover Square Press, 2026)
The Quake That Drained the Desert with Mary Elizabeth Reynolds (U Nebraska Press, 2026)