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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

2,239 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Critical Theory has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 2,239 episodes. That works out to over 2000 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 2 days ago, with 116 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 367 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,239
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

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)

May 12, 202643 min

Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)

May 8, 202638 min

Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)

May 6, 202641 min

Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)

May 4, 20261h 21m

James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 4, 202654 min

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)

May 3, 20261h 17m

Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)

May 2, 2026

D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

May 2, 20261h 10m

Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)

May 1, 20261h 32m

Mapping Out Food and Philosophy

May 1, 2026

Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Apr 28, 202654 min

Rugged Individualism

Apr 27, 202618 min

Sarah Jaffe, "From the Ashes: Grief and Transformation in a World on Fire" (Bold Type Books, 2024)

Apr 22, 20261h 7m

Manuel Barcia, "Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" (Yale UP, 2026)

Apr 18, 202638 min

169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)

Apr 18, 202631 min

Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Apr 17, 20261h 1m

Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Apr 17, 20261h 8m

Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Apr 16, 20261h 13m

Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)

Apr 15, 20261h 8m

Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era

Apr 14, 20261h 1m
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