New Books in Popular Culture

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)

Sharon White Rewires Disco

Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Adrienne Domasin ed., "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us" (Playstory Press, 2025)

Michael Brown, "Eyeliner’s Buy Now" (Bloomsbury 2025)

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)

Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)

Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything

Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)

Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)

James Brown's War on Disco

James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)

Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)

Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)

Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document

Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document

Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)

Disco's Revenge

Kubrick’s Worlds: Power, Paranoia, and the Politics of the Human Condition

Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)

Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)

Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024)

What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

Greg Soden, "Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020-2025)" (Earth Island Books, 2025)

Megan Walsh, "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)

Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)

Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World" (Weldon Owen, 2025)

Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, "Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)

The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)

Signal Award Re-Release: Lost Women of Disco

Jason Schneider, "That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence" (Anvil Press, 2025)

Lorraine Besser, "The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It" (Balance, 2024)

Chris Dalla Riva, "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)

Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)

John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

In The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift Addresses Love, Glamour, and Grit

Audrey Golden, "Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats" (Da Capo Press, 2025)