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The Varnish and the Glaze, Painting Splendor With Oil, 1100-1500
Colonialism
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Lhasa
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Rebecca de Souza traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanis... more

Professor Pierce Salguero sits down with Professor Harold Roth, Director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University. Hal is the person who coined the term “contemplative studies,” and he has been a pioneer in this emerging academic f... more

In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland, expecting world-class care for his severe depression. Instead, he was confined to a locked ward, denied medication, and subje... more

Photographer Peter Aaron and acclaimed wine writer Jane Anson join the New Books Network to discuss Bordeaux Chronicle (Vendome Press, 2026), a visual and historical portrait of one of the world's most celebrated wine regions, told through photograph... more

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Recent Guests

Rachel Shelden
Associate Professor of History and Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University
Penn State University
Episode: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History with Rachel A. Shelden (UNC Press, 2026)
Erika Balsom
Reader in Film and Media Studies at King's College London, scholar, writer, curator and author of five books.
King's College London
Episode: The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture with Erika Balsom (Columbia UP, 2026)
Michelle Anya Anjirbag
Academic researcher and writer focused on fairy tales, folktales, adaptations and fantasy
Goldsmiths, University of London
Episode: Cinderella: A Cultural History with Michelle Anya Anjirbag (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026)
Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Conductor and pianist who oversees translation and editorial preparation of his father's works
University of Notre Dame Press
Episode: Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney, and Carter Snead (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
Daniel Mahoney
Solzhenitsyn scholar and author of The Other Solzhenitsyn
Assumption University
Episode: Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney, and Carter Snead (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
Carter Snead
Professor of law and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
University of Notre Dame
Episode: Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney, and Carter Snead (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
Andrew Cox
Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
Episode: AI for the Information Professional: A Critical Guide with Andrew Cox (Facet, 2026)
Saladin Ambar
Political scientist and senior scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics
Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics
Episode: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln with Saladin Ambar (Diversion Books, 2025)
Catharina Rachik
Research assistant and coordinator and editor of the Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses volumes
Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses
Episode: The Concept of Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam with Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer (de Gruyter, 2025)

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4.3 out of 5 stars from 297 ratings
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    Dr. Raymond Williams did an excellent interview with author Sharron Wilkins Conrad!

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  • Shrill

    The lady’s voice is so sharp, it’s painful to listen to. Sorry.

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    bulbous also tapered
    United Kingdom9 months ago
  • Radioactive Dixie episode….

    A very prejudiced and loaded episode. Why would living near a nuclear power station will affect your life significantly? It wouldn’t. Have either of you visited one? Author or interviewer?

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    Ben Bronx
    United Kingdom10 months ago
  • Important historical analyses

    Lisa Silverman is an historian whose books I want to explore, based on this interview. I’m not an academically-trained historian, but read and study a lot, especially from the first half of the twentieth century. Thank you for giving her the platform for explaining her ideas. I’m embarking on post-WWII histories now, and my reading list is enhanced.

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    bobOnGuitar
    United States10 months ago
  • Simms pedaling his ludicrous "theory". Hitler was obsessed with Bolshevism and the threat of communism.

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The Capitalist Era with Jeremy Adelman (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Why did you include the photograph from your family, and how did you think more broadly about using photography as primary material?
The photograph was taken by Adelman's missionary grandfather in China and illustrates how mission photography circulated images of distant people to raise support and connect communities. Adelman also treats photography as a historical practice shaped by image-makers, subjects, circulation, and reception, rather than as decoration.
The Capitalist Era with Jeremy Adelman (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: What does the book mean by interdependence and intervisibility, and how do they fit together?
Capitalism expands dependencies across the world, making strangers mutually reliant. Commercial media also makes distant people visible to one another, linking awareness of strangers to the systems people depend on.
The Disease of Money: Japan’s Monetization in the Early Middle Ages with Mikael S. Adolphson (U Hawai’i Press, 2026)
Q: What is different then about what you've been telling us? I mean, did this whole argument around central governments doing things, that's more what the Europeans were up to, different from the Japanese?
Adolphson compares Japan with Scandinavia and Frisia, arguing that monetization could be promoted by markets as well as by states. Japan's coins became accepted through market demand without a government minting them or guaranteeing their value.
The Disease of Money: Japan’s Monetization in the Early Middle Ages with Mikael S. Adolphson (U Hawai’i Press, 2026)
Q: Why were coins being imported to Japan in the period you're focusing on?
Adolphson says Chinese traders exported coins primarily to meet Japanese demand for copper, which was needed by temples and shrines, after Japanese copper mining had stopped.
Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC with Allie Martin (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: How did you conduct the research for the book?
Martin combined ethnographic interviews and observation with soundwalks and passive acoustic recording at a busy DC intersection, with collaborators and local relationships helping make the recording work possible.

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Author interviews spanning history, politics, literature, religion, science, education, culture, and current affairs. Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and novelists discuss recently published books, explaining their central arguments, research, historical context, and relevance beyond the page. Conversations are led by a broad group of interviewers, often with expertise in the subject area, and give guests room to discuss their work in detail.

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