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Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (Brandeis UP, 2026)
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity with Samar Abdel-Rahman (American U of Cairo Press, 2026)
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Women in Comics: Iconic Characters and Influential Creators 1923-Today with Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Weapons
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values with Julien Mailland (MIT Press, 2026)
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall with Stephen Wade
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend with Jeremy Harte (Reaktion, 2026)
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Oct 03, 2026 |
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The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
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Oct 02, 2026 |
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Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life with James Gavin (Equinox, 2026)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan: Media, Empathy, and Digital Testimony with Xinling Li (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah with Thomas Schatz (U California Press, 2026)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Ru Marshall, "American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda" (OR Books, 2026)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Revisiting The Leftovers
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Sarah Trad, "A House in the Lebanese Mountains: Recipes & Stories from Beit Trad" (Thames & Hudson, 2026)
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Jennifer Hoewe, "Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It)" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Claudia Verhoeven, "Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders" (Verso, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Ashley Kahn, "Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland" (Atria Books, 2026)
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Stephen Lee Naish, "Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Erin Osmon, "Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Emily Charlotte, "Catching Feelings" (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Dog Day Afternoon
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Robyn Hitchcock, "Stranded in the Future" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Brian Jay Jones, "George Lucas: A Life" (Little, Brown and Company, 2016)
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Brian Callaci, "Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Mulholland Drive at 25: Film Quarterly
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Ed Park, "Three Tenses" (Random House, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Vincent Haddad, "Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Scott Peeples, "How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Tár
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Christopher R. Rogers, "My City Need Something" (Common Notions, 2026)
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Cycling Cities: Lisbon and Tehran with M. Luísa Sousa and Kazem Afradi
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The War of the Worlds
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Elijah Wald, "Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Mike F. Alvarez, Warren J. Bareiss, and Jolane Flanigan eds., "Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe" (Bristol University Press, 2026)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill, "Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story" (Da Capo, 2026)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Metamodern Mysticism with Linda Ceriello
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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A.D. Carson, "Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Alan Brender, "Pink Tsunami: The Hello Kitty Kawaii Wave that has Swept the World" (Headpress, 2026)
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Scott Reich, "One Day in September: Baseball, Brotherhood, and the Birth of the All-Star Game" (Compass Rose, 2026)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Ryan Angulo and Doug Crowell, "Kindness & Salt: Recipes for the Care & Feeding of Your Friends & Neighbors" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Andrew Wilson, "I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Larry Atkins, "Foul or Fair? Ethical and Social Issues in Sports" (McFarland, 2024)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Philip Norman, "Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles" (Da Capo Press, 2026)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Rachael Renae, "Prioritize Play: Express Your Creativity, Boost Your Confidence, and Foster Deeper Connection" (Balance, 2026)
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Street Level: HUD at 60
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Rebecca Kosick, "Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press" (Wayne State UP, 2026)
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Olivia Rodrigo Blends Past and Present in Her New Album
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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Alexander Vandewalle, "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Anna Harwell Celenza, "On the Record: Music that Changed America (Norton, 2026)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Blue Jasmine
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Cape Fear Retells an Archetypal Revenge Story for a New Generation
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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For All Mankind Concludes Its Search For New Life
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Chloe Chapin, "Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)
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May 28, 2026 |
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David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
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May 27, 2026 |
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Mapping a New Politics in For All Mankind
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May 26, 2026 |
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What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
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May 26, 2026 |
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Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Tony Lee Moral, "A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2026)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Tom Meschery, "The Mad Manchurian: From the Internment Camps of Tokyo to the Hardwood Courts of the NBA" (Coffeetown Press, 2025)
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May 19, 2026 |
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
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May 18, 2026 |
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Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Mischa Oak, "Rainbow Wisdom: 18 LGBTQ+ Life Lessons for Everyone" (Page Two Book Inc. 2026)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Aycee Brown, "Embody Your Magic: Create the Life of Your Dreams Through Astrology, Numerology, Mediumship, Metaphysics, and Human Design" (HarperOne, 2026)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Wake Up Dead Man (Fr Scott Bailey): The Priest who Helped Hollywood Make a Murder Mystery Movie about the Church
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May 15, 2026 |
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Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)
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May 12, 2026 |
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Lim Tse Wei, "Little Perfections: Eating in Singapore" (Kitchen Arts and Letters, 2026)
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May 12, 2026 |
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Mary Lucia, " What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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May 07, 2026 |
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Nicholas Tochka, "The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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May 03, 2026 |
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For All Mankind’s Story of Martian Revolution
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May 01, 2026 |
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Andrea Horbinski, "Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Mary Lisa Gavenas, "Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay" (Penguin, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Chinatown
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Brook Flagg, "I Go There with You: The U2 Sites of Southern California, from Significant to Sacred" (Nine Criteria, 2025)
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Jes Battis, "It's Only Forever: Labyrinth" (ECW Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Michael Lee Nirenberg, "Cinematic Immunity" (Feral House, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Constance Bailey et al. "Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Eileen G'Sell, "Lipstick" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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The Shawshank Redemption in China: An Interview with Matti Lehtonen
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman, "West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life" (Little, Brown and Co, 2011)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Kate Crane, "Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Daphne A. Brooks, "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Paul Robichaud, "Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Matthew Bothwell, "The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Margaret Heffernan, "Embracing Uncertainty: How Writers, Musicians and Artists Thrive In An Unpredictable World" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Peter D. McDonald, "The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Pavel Brunssen, "The Making of 'Jew Clubs': Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Jan Yager, "Time Masters: Eleven Secrets to Greater Productivity and Life Fulfillment" (Hannacroix Craft Books, 2026)
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Is "For All Mankind" the Most Ambitious Show on Television?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Jordan Treske, "Building the Milwaukee Bucks: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson, and the Rapid Rise of an NBA Franchise, 1968-1975" (McFarland, 2025)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Katharine K. Wilkinson, "Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" (Amber Lotus Publishing, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Fiction’s Lost Ambition with Writer Sam Kahn
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Peter Richardson, "Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine" (U California Press, 2026)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Daniel Rachel, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Eleanor Houghton, "Charlotte Brontë's Life in Clothes" (Bloomsbury 2026)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Beth Derderian, "Art Capital: Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Marty Friedman with Jon Wiederhorn, "Dreaming Japanese" (Permuted Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Chiang Mai 2015
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Robert Parish with Jake Uitti, "The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon" (Triumph, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Melissa Auf der Maur, "Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir" (DaCapo, 2026)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Michael Mann Reconsidered: Heat and Collateral
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Robert Hall, "Building Resilient Futures" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Everything You Wanted to Know about China*: * But Were Afraid to Ask" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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The 50th Anniversary Tour of Patti Smith's Horses: A Conversation with Caryn Rose
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ali and The Last of the Mohicans
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Alan McDougall, "Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ferrari and Manhunter
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" (Bonnier Books, 2025)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Mike Huguenor, "Elvis Is Dead, I'm Still Alive: The Story of Asian Man Records" (Clash, 2026)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Emma Chapman, "Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth" (Hachette UK, 2026)
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Robert J. Coplan, "The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Michael Mann Reconsidered: Thief and The Insider
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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A Star Is Born (1937)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Carlin Wing, "Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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The Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Rachel Walther, "Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon" (Headpress, 2026)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Victor Navarro-Remesal, "Zen and Slow Games" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Ani DiFranco and Lauren Coyle Rosen, "The Spirit of Ani: Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music, and Freedom" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Michael Glover Smith, "Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think" (McNidder and Grace, 2026)
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Michèle Schaal, "Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes's Authorial Politics" (Peter Lang, 2026)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Ashely Alker, "99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Jessica Martin, "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Santiago Fouz-Hernández, "The Films of Bigas Luna" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Robert P. Kolker and David Wyatt, "The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision" (Routledge, 2026)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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His Girl Friday
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Dan Hassler-Forest, "Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Paul Rees, "Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine and Payola - the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986" (De Capo, 2026)
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Ian Gittins, "The Cure: A Perfect Dream" (Gemini Books, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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What Went Wrong with The Night Manager?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup" (Bold Type Books, 2025)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Bill Kopp, "What's the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums" (Hozac, 2025)
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Robert Guffey, "Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos" (Headpress, 2026)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Gaoheng Zhang, "Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Rolando Pujol, "The Great American Retro Road Trip: A Celebration of Roadside Americana" (Artisan Publishers, 2025)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Misty L. Heggeness, "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Kay Dickinson, "Fernando: A Song by ABBA" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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M. Hinds and J. Silverman, "Johnny Cash International: How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple the Most Important Movie of the Year?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Night Manager Episodes 1—3 Analysis: It Never Ends!
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Peter F. Burns et. al, "Disneyland Politics: How a Medium-Size City and Corporate Giant Coexist" (Temple UP, 2025)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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"Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg" (Akashic Books, Ltd., 2016)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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How to Fix Baseball with author Jane Leavy
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Pluribus Episodes 6 & 7 Analysis: I Feel Fine!
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Hilary Davidson, "A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth Move" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Kroessler, "Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens" (Rutgers UP, 2025) This
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Max Brzezinski, "Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Curtis Marez, "Producing Precarity: The Costs of Making TV in Poor Places" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Camesia O. Matthews, "The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Total Body Health and Elevates Performance" (Playbook Scholars, 2025)
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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YIVO Archives and Library, "100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" (YIVO, 2025)
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Timothy Gitzen, "Unscripting the Present" (SUNY Press, 2025)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Pluribus Episodes 4&5 Analysis: We Need a Little Space
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Elliott Kalan, "Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Josh Levine, "Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated" (ECW Press, 2025)
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Natalie Porter, "Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders" (ECW Press, 2025)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Sharon White Rewires Disco
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Adrienne Domasin ed., "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us" (Playstory Press, 2025)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Michael Brown, "Eyeliner’s Buy Now" (Bloomsbury 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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James Brown's War on Disco
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Disco's Revenge
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Kubrick’s Worlds: Power, Paranoia, and the Politics of the Human Condition
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Greg Soden, "Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020-2025)" (Earth Island Books, 2025)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World" (Weldon Owen, 2025)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, "Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Signal Award Re-Release: Lost Women of Disco
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Jason Schneider, "That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence" (Anvil Press, 2025)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Lorraine Besser, "The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It" (Balance, 2024)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Chris Dalla Riva, "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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In The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift Addresses Love, Glamour, and Grit
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Audrey Golden, "Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats" (Da Capo Press, 2025)
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Roddy Bottum, "The Royal We" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Disco Sucks
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell eds., "Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans" (Routledge, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Sahan Jayasuriya, "Don't Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen" (Feral House, 2025)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, and Stan Altman, "Twice Blessed: A Story of Unconditional Love" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Kawika Guillermo, "Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games" (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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James Campion, "Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era" (Backbeat Books, 2025)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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From Stonewall to Studio 54
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Taylor Cole Miller eds., "The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Human Leadership for Humane Technology
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Joelle Kidd, "Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture" (ECW Press, 2025)
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music" (Jawbone Press, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Pauwke Berkers and Yosha Wijngaarden, "A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Peter K. Andersson, "The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial Splendour" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team" (Ballantine Books, 2019)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Richard Mainwaring, "What the Ear Hears (And Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness" (Reaktion, 2010)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Alisha Mughal, "It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow" (ECW Press, 2025)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Turning the Page, Tuning the Dial
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Lost Women of Disco
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Jubilee (1978)
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Megan Volpert, "Why Alanis Morissette Matters" (University of Texas Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Veronica Litt, "Ugh! As If!: Clueless" (ECW Press, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Rock 'N' Roll Resurrection
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club Scene
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Illustrating Punk
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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A Queer Etymology of Punk
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Barry W. Enderwick, "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" (Harvard Common Press, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Sounds of the City Collapsing
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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How Punk Broke the Binary
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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American Gangster
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Michael Broyles, "Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds" (Norton, 2024)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Owen Flanagan, "What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Joshua K. Wright, "The NBA's Global Empire: How the League Became an International Powerhouse" (McFarland, 2025)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Ashlee Piper, "No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity" (Celadon Books, 2025)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Dave Cook, "Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-'Em-Ups" (Bitmap Books, 2022)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Laura Lee Flanagan, "Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!" (Process Media, 2025)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
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May 29, 2025 |
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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 22, 2025 |
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Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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May 22, 2025 |
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Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
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May 12, 2025 |
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Brian M. Ingrassia, "Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America" (
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May 11, 2025 |
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Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
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May 10, 2025 |
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Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 06, 2025 |
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Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
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May 03, 2025 |
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Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
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May 02, 2025 |
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Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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James Cartlidge, "The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon" (CRC Press, 2025)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Making Radio History
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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D. D. Miller, "Eight-wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Shelly Jones and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, "Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic, The Gathering and Its Influence" (McFarland, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Marco Arnaudo, "The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century" (McFarland, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Maurice Suckling, "Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jul 13, 2024 |