New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

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Booking Overview

An academic author-interview podcast focused on newly published critical theory and adjacent social and political thought, typically featuring scholars, authors, and subject-matter experts discussing their books with an expert interviewer. Credible pitches include university researchers, public intellectuals, psychotherapists, and other specialists with a recently published book that makes a substantive contribution to critical, political, cultural, or social theory; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 2302

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

marshallpoe@gmail.com

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Host

Marshall Poe - Historian and founder of the New Books Network, with a background in Russian and intellectual history.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Scholars, authors, researchers, and subject-matter experts with demonstrated expertise in critical theory, political thought, social theory, cultural studies, or related fields, usually tied to a recently published book.
Required Achievements:  
Authorship of a recently published scholarly or intellectually substantive book, University research, teaching, or institutional expertise, Published research, journalism, or public work on a specialized area of social or political thought

Recent Guest Discussions

Kurt Warner - Distraction, Consumerism, Celebrity Culture, Critical Thinking, Civic Responsibility, And Threats To Democratic Engagement.

Timothy Mitchell - Capitalization, Credit, Coercion, Imperial Expansion, Climate Collapse, And The Extraction Of Value From The Future.

Rahul Sonpimple - Caste As A Material Question, Ambedkarism, Dalit Politics, Anti-caste Struggle, And Indian Marxist Analysis.

Recent Topics

Critical Theory, Social Theory, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Cultural Studies

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
New Books in Critical Theory
:

Valena Beety, "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity" (New Press, 2026)

August 04, 2026

A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four women are convicted of horrific crimes against children they never touched, based on junk science and homophobia—and spend nearly twenty years in prison before being exonerated. A queer teenager takes a photo of a child’s diaper rash at work—and is sentenced to 126 years. These cases are not aberrations. They are symptoms of a system tha...

Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont eds., "Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities" (Stanford UP, 2026)

July 29, 2026

The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the world's most impenetrable autocracies. Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities (Stanford University Press, 2026) edited by Dr. Lisa Blaydes and Dr. Samuel Helfont brings together leading scholars to take stock of what we have learned from over a decade of research using the Ba'thi...

Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)

July 28, 2026

How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University Press, 2026), Paul Langley, a Professor of Economic Geography at Durham Universityand Andrew Leyshon, a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Economy, Policy and Place, Nottingham Trent University and Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, chart the rise of a new form of capitalism in the digital age. Dra...

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