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New Books in Critical Theory

New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Marshall Poe · New Books Network

2,319 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Critical Theory has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 2,319 episodes. That works out to over 2100 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 43 min and 1h 6m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 196 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 367 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,319
Running
2008–2026 · 18y
Median length
55 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

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

Aug 22, 202643 min

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

Aug 22, 202653 min

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

Aug 21, 20261h 33m

A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Aug 19, 202656 min

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

Aug 19, 20261h 4m

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

Aug 19, 202659 min

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

Aug 17, 20261h 3m

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

Aug 16, 202647 min

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

Aug 15, 202636 min

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

Aug 15, 20261h 2m

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

Aug 13, 202645 min

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

Aug 12, 202651 min

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

Aug 9, 202640 min

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

Aug 8, 202651 min

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

Aug 8, 20261h 15m

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

Aug 7, 202643 min

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

Aug 7, 20261h 26m

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

Aug 5, 20261h 1m

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

Aug 4, 202625 min

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

Jul 29, 202641 min
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