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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

2,360 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Critical Theory has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 2,360 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 237 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 367 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,360
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

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Think of England: Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination with Paul Kléber Monod (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Oct 7, 20261h 7m

Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)

Oct 6, 202656 min

The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)

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Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Oct 1, 202650 min

How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos

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Sep 27, 202650 min

Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities with yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (U Virginia Press, 2026)

Sep 26, 202646 min

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Sep 26, 20261h 22m

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Sep 25, 20261h 22m

Assemblage Theory and Affect with Ian Buchanan (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Sep 25, 20261h 28m

Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics with Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton UP, 2025)

Sep 25, 202656 min

The Nature of Freedom: On the Republican Tradition with Philip Pettit

Sep 23, 202657 min

Angela Last, "Tainted Tools: New Materialisms As a Decolonial Project" (Manchester University Press, 2026)

Sep 22, 202634 min

Joe Jackson, "Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sep 20, 20261h 11m
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