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Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers – Duke University Press, May 2026 In Predatory Welfare, Erin Torkelson explores how the direct cash transfer program instituted in South Africa revised and reworked post-apartheid racialized and gendered dispossession, despite its … Continue reading →

Leslie C. Dunn and Avi Mendelson eds. Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness – Springer, May 2026 Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern drama, is energized by the belief … Continue reading →

Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Fiction in Neoliberal Ruins – UCL Press, April 2026 (print and open access) Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment offers a comparative critical … Continue reading →

Randall L. Schweller, Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent – Cambridge University Press, February 2026 Why is the Liberal International Order unraveling – and will this lead to global disorder? Broken Cycle explores this urgent question by viewing … Continue reading →

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds. Media Rurality – Duke University Press, April 2026 Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings … Continue reading →

Patrick Brodie, Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland – Duke University Press, March 2026 In Wild Tides, Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Irish economy before the 2008 financial crisis up to 2020, outlining how the … Continue reading →

Ana Oancea, Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France – University of Toronto Press, July 2025 Dangerous Creations presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle French literature by analyzing the works of Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Émile Zola, and Villiers … Continue reading →

Robin James, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation – Duke University Press, November 2026 In Good Vibes Only, Robin James argues that the vibes, the mathematical vectors driving modern technologies, have shifted. Considering the forms of governance … Continue reading →