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New Books in Language and Translation

New Books in Language and Translation

Interviews with Scholars of Language about their New Books

Marshall Poe · New Books Network

574 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Language and Translation has been publishing since 2011, and across the 15 years since has built a catalogue of 574 episodes. That works out to roughly 510 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 1h 3m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 52 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 76 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
574
Running
2011–2026 · 15y
Median length
54 min
Cadence
Fortnightly

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/language

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Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)

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Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Jun 11, 202638 min

Islam in English

Jun 10, 202636 min

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)

Jun 4, 202654 min

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

Jun 3, 202630 min

Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang, "Spent Bullets" (HarperVia, 2025)

Jun 3, 202658 min

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)

Jun 2, 2026

Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)

May 29, 202623 min

Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski

May 29, 2026

Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias and the Metaphysics of Development" (Routledge, 2026)

May 28, 202635 min

Learning Languages on Social Media

May 26, 202637 min

Matthew R. Crawford and Aaron P. Johnson, "Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian: Introduction and Translation" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 25, 20261h 9m

Elina Penner, 'Nightberries" (CMU Press, 2026)

May 24, 202640 min

Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026)

May 24, 202648 min

Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

May 19, 202634 min

Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word

May 10, 202646 min

Yiddish: Biography of a Language

May 6, 2026

Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis

May 5, 20261h 13m

Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)

May 5, 202652 min
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