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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 

Noga Arikha, Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds – Yale University Press, July 2025 A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely acknowledged for … Continue reading →

D. Vance Smith, Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe – University of Chicago Press, December 2025 There is an excerpt here A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image … Continue reading →

Balázs Trencsényi, Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History – Oxford University Press, March 2025 This volume offers a broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of the history and theory of the political idea … Continue reading →