New Books in Critical Theory

1995 Episodes

1. Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 2/21/2025
11. Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/21/2025
12. Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)

    Published: 2/20/2025
13. Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism

    Published: 2/20/2025
14. William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/20/2025
15. Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)

    Published: 2/18/2025
16. Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)

    Published: 2/18/2025
17. Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 2/15/2025
18. Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance

    Published: 2/14/2025
19. Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/14/2025
20. Failed Passing

    Published: 2/12/2025