New Books in Critical Theory

1925 Episodes

1. Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/21/2025
2. Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/20/2025
3. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/19/2025
4. Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)

   Published: 3/18/2025
5. Action Without Hope

   Published: 3/17/2025
6. Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/16/2025
7. Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/15/2025
8. Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

   Published: 3/14/2025
9. Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 3/13/2025
10. Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/12/2025
11. Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2025
12. Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/6/2025
13. Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)

    Published: 3/5/2025
14. Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 3/1/2025
15. Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/28/2025
16. Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/26/2025
17. Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 2/25/2025
18. Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/22/2025
19. Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)

    Published: 2/21/2025
20. Adnan Husain on Reorienting History

    Published: 2/21/2025