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Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History – Allen Lane, February 2026 What’s in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come … Continue reading →

Peter C. Grace, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA – Georgetown University Press, January 2026 The untold story of how America’s brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA In the early days of … Continue reading →

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: An Annotated Translation – trans. Cyril Welch, Yale University Press, February 2026 New Books discussion with Stephen Dozeman – thanks to dmf for the link A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important … Continue reading →

Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, and Paola Rebughini eds. Agency Beyond Confinement Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World – Routledge, March 2026 What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, … Continue reading →

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature – Liverpool University Press, February 2026 From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s talking corpses and the unburied … Continue reading →

Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, L’invention de l’animal: Essai d’anthropologie médiévale – Gallimard, March 2026 Il n’y avait pas d’animal au Moyen Âge. Des cochons et des oiseaux, des bœufs et des belettes, des lapins et des ours, des loups et des abeilles, … Continue reading →

Eray Çayli, Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan – University of Texas Press, October 2025 New Books discussion with Ronay Bakan – thank to dmf for the link Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role … Continue reading →

Antonio Melechi, The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond – MIT Press, February 2026 A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive. “Know thyself”—the … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned these before, but on Boas, see also Rosemary Lévy-Zumwalt’s two-volume biography, Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist and Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice, University of Nebraska Press, 2019 and 2022