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Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom – Oxford University Press, August 2025 New Books interview with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link This highly original and innovative book is the first to … Continue reading →

I’ve been away for a while, so there were a few books waiting for me on my return. Several of these relate to a planned ‘Sunday History‘ on the Tel Quel visit to China – Jean Berthier’s recent book Voyage … Continue reading →

Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access)

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker – Pittsburgh Review of Books Lots more writing and publishing posts and links here.

Susanne Vees-Gulani, Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token – University of Michigan Press, February 2026 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link Icon Dresden explores how memory and … Continue reading →

Tamara T. Chin, The Silk Road Idea: Ancient Contact in the Modern Human Sciences – University of Chicago Press, November 2026 Traces the rise and fall of a set of modern disciplinary fields devoted to premodern historical contact that drew … Continue reading →

Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026 The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas  In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune … Continue reading →