New Books in Popular Culture

Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team" (Ballantine Books, 2019)

Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth

Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)

Richard Mainwaring, "What the Ear Hears (And Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency" (Sourcebooks, 2022)

Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness" (Reaktion, 2010)

Alisha Mughal, "It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow" (ECW Press, 2025)

Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)

Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)

Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)

Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)

Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)

Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)

Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)

Turning the Page, Tuning the Dial

Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)

Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)

Lost Women of Disco

Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)

Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)

Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)

Jubilee (1978)

Megan Volpert, "Why Alanis Morissette Matters" (University of Texas Press, 2025)

James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)

Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

Veronica Litt, "Ugh! As If!: Clueless" (ECW Press, 2025)

Rock 'N' Roll Resurrection

Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)

Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)

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)

S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)

Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)

Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)

Johanna Drucker, "Affluvia: the Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture" (Bridge Art, 2025)

Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?

Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)

American Gangster

Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Michael Broyles, "Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds" (Norton, 2024)

Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)

Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)