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Susan Pickford, Translating Books for Publication – Routledge, September 2026 Translating Books for Publication offers readers an introductory guide to translating for the publishing sector, designed for aspiring translators and translation-adjacent professionals entering the field. It addresses the critical gap in … Continue reading →

Georg Glaze, Amaël Cattaruzza, Finn Dammann, and Frédérick Douzet eds. The Elgar Companion to the Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty: Contested Networks, Territories and Self-determination – Edward Elgar, 2026 (print and open access) This comprehensive Companion explores the rise of digital sovereignty … Continue reading →

Kojin Karatani, The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution – eds. Jonathan E. Abel, Yoshiki Tajiri and Hiroki Yoshikuni – Verso, August 2026 A groundbreaking essay on literature’s demise from the award-winning philosopher What comes after the death of … Continue reading →

Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026 I’ve shared news of the book before, there is now a New Books Network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf … Continue reading →

Steven Press, Europe’s Little Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of Neutral Moresnet – Cornell University Press, August 2026 Europe’s Little Anarchy uncovers the history of Neutral Moresnet: a once-forgotten space without borders, nationalism, or a recognized government. Between 1815 and 1919, this … Continue reading →

James Kneale, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 – Bloomsbury, November 2025 This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918. James … Continue reading →

Miriam Posner, Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics – Yale University Press, October 2026 A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology … Continue reading →

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024; paperback May 2026 Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions The two issues around which this collection revolves are … Continue reading →