Monthly Archives: April 2026

Pierre Déléage, Inventing Writing: Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900 – trans. Victoria Bergstrom and Matthew H. Evans, HAU, March 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 22, 2026 by stuartelden

Pierre Déléage, Inventing Writing: Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900 – trans. Victoria Bergstrom and Matthew H. Evans, HAU, March 2026 Print book distributed by University of Chicago Press, and open access direct … Continue reading →

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Bassam Sidiki, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-Imperiality, 1880-2022 – The University of North Carolina Press, November 2026

Posted on April 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Bassam Sidiki, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-Imperiality, 1880-2022 – The University of North Carolina Press, November 2026 No empire is an island  Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about … Continue reading →

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Haig Patapan, The Modern Tyrant: Authoritarian Leadership in Theory and Practice – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026

Posted on April 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Haig Patapan, The Modern Tyrant: Authoritarian Leadership in Theory and Practice – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 32 – trying to improve a draft

Posted on April 20, 2026 by stuartelden

As I said in the last update, I went to the EUI in Florence at the beginning of February with a nearly complete draft of my manuscript on Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France, and had the plan to leave at the … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s portrait of Émile Benveniste in The Samurai

Posted on April 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva’s first novel The Samurai was published in 1990. It’s not the greatest novel, but it’s well known that the book is a thinly disguised autobiography, with the central character Olga Morena modelled on herself. Many of the famous names of … Continue reading →

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Christian Henderson, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System – Cambridge University Press, February 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on April 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Christian Henderson, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System – Cambridge University Press, February 2026 In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction explores how the Gulf states are simultaneously defined by … Continue reading →

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Books received – Nizan, Macciocchi, Nussbaum, Nail, Hathaway, Watkins, Stilz, Joseph

Posted on April 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Books from Oxford University Press in recompense for review work, and two from Verso.

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Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars – Yale University Press, April 2025

Posted on April 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars – Yale University Press, April 202 A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts While manuscripts … Continue reading →

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Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815 – Oxford University Press, May 2026

Posted on April 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815 – Oxford University Press, May 2026 In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. … Continue reading →

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New John Berger editions from Verso – The Moment of Cubism, Landscapes, Corker’s Freedom and Goya’s Last Portrait/A Question of Geography (with Nella Bielski)

Posted on April 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Today we welcome four new titles into our Essential John Berger series: The Moment of Cubism – One of Berger’s most important collections of art criticism wherein he suggests that Cubism was a moment rather than a movement and makes a case … Continue reading →

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