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My review, “An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography. If you’d like to read it and can’t access … Continue reading →

Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Michael Motia – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies … Continue reading →

Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024 Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, … Continue reading →

The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek One volume was published in 2022, but three more are now announced. Alfred North Whitehead was one of the 20th-century’s most … Continue reading →

Stéphane Füzesséry, La Destruction de Berlin: De l’explosion urbaine à Germania, 1860-1945 – La Découverte, August 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link. La croissance explosive de Berlin entre 1860 et 1910 a-t-elle favorisé la réception du nazisme ? … Continue reading →

Sheila Hones, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography – University of Wales Press, January 2025 A consideration of literary geography as a specialist academic field. Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory, and practice of a literary geography which takes as its … Continue reading →

David A. Westbrook, Social Thought from the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party – Routledge, August 2025, print and open access Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the … Continue reading →

Kären Wigen ed., Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map – University of Chicago Press, April 2025 Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality … Continue reading →