This should cheer me up no end …. @politybooks.bsky.social

The best new popular science books of April 2026 April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers...

“If you want to recognise those clouds, find out how they form and create rain...and discover how climate change is affecting them, then this is for you.”
@newscientist.com names Levizzani’s “The Book of Clouds” one of their Best New Popular Science Books

www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

Before and After the Pelicot Trial | Los Angeles Review of Books On Manon Garcia’s new book about the recent case, and what it tells us about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the complicity of men in general.

“The most terrifying question of Garcia’s book is a simple one: can we, how can we, live with men after the Pelicot trial?”
Los Angeles Review of Books (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social) review Manon Garcia's Living with Men

lareviewofbooks.org/article/gise...

Byung-Chul Han says that if he had to summarize his thought in one sentence, he would describe it like this: ‘The Other disappears.’

The Tonality of Thought by Byung-Chul Han brings together three lectures in an ideal introduction to Han's thought.

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Bogna Konior Explains the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet YouTube video by The Dangerous Maybe

Listen to Bogna Konior talk about her book 'The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet' on The Dangerous Maybe podcast.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcC...

Congratulations to Raewyn Connell, the recipient of the 2026 Kohli Prize for Sociology!

The accessibility of her writing has been instrumental in reaching both scholarly and non-academic audiences. Her new book 'Trans Lives' is out now from polity.

More details: kohlifoundation.eu/news/kohli-p...

Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social

Tomorrow at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social I will be in conversation with French sociologist & anthropologist #DidierFassin about "Exile: Chronicle of the Border" @politybooks.bsky.social co-authored with French sociologist Anne-Claire Defossez. Looking forward to it! www.semcoop.com/event/didier...

Page proofs for the new book "Understanding Artificial Intelligence" @politybooks.bsky.social arrived this morning. I now know what I will be doing for the next 14 days.

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World Inequality Report 2026 World Inequality Report 2026, World Inequality Report 2026 is the most authoritative and wide-ranging account available of global trends in inequality

📚🌍 The World Inequality Report 2026 is now available in the UK in hardback from @politybooks.bsky.social

Available now in the UK, coming in France this April and in North America on May 26.

Read more and order a copy ⬇️
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"Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models," which I wrote with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social for @politybooks.bsky.social is now out and available in Chinese translation from Business Weekly Publications. Author copies arrived in today's mail.

🙌 🙌 🙌 Done! I’ve just sent my manuscript, “Pioneer Communities: How our digital futures emerge in Silicon Valley and beyond,” to @politybooks.bsky.social , where the book is now going into production. 1/4

‘Fairies emerge from the deep past of humanity, walking with us now, and in all likelihood shadowing our steps into the uncertain future of our species.’

'Fairies: A History' by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social is out today in the UK!

See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Today is publication day for ‘Fairies: A History’ - so I’ve written a special free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ to celebrate 📚🧚 open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

The Middle East is Asian: A Conversation with Mohammed Soliman, the Author of West Asia • Stimson Center The traditional Middle East is disappearing, replaced by a West Asia that is increasingly defined by its ties to the East. This shift represents the Asianization of the region, as power is reorganized...

Tomorrow at @stimsoncenter.bsky.social, I'll be discussing my book, West Asia (@politybooks.bsky.social) with two thinkers I deeply respect: @emmamashford.bsky.social & Daniel Markey. Book signing too. Come say hello.

www.stimson.org/event/the-mi...

Jürgen Habermas obituary Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule

“I view the attempt to make the world even the tiniest bit better, or even just to be part of the effort to stave off the constant threats of regression that we face, as an utterly admirable motive.”

Read an obituary of Jürgen Habermas in @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The so-called ‘information crisis’ reflects a broader crisis of legitimacy – and the failure of traditional authorities to maintain their own trustworthiness.

Media education expert David Buckingham’s ‘The End of Information’ is out now in the UK.

See more: www.politybooks.com/...

Travelling concepts – notes on “PUA” culture in China - LSE Review of Books Rachel O'Neill reflects on her book Seduction's Chinese translation, how “PUA” travels across borders, neoliberal masculinity & how algorithms shape intimacy

Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture (where men learn how to successfully "pick up" women) resonates in China to mark the new Chinese translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age, The encyclopedia—a medium rooted in enlightenment visions of intellectual rationality—has expanded in scope, scale, and popularity ...

📘 My new book, The #WebofKnowledge, is on its way. tinyurl.com/encylop
It follows the long arc from encyclopedic institutions to digital platforms and emerging AI systems — not to mourn lost expertise, but to ask how authority is reorganised, governed, and contested under platform capitalism.

Next up, I'm #TheoryRedux series with @politybooks.bsky.social: "Self-Sabotage" by the great #ToddMcGowan. Stay tuned.

Will the Government’s rent control legislation help or harm tenants? Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Will the Government’s rent control legislation help or harm tenants?

Listen to Michael Byrne, author of Beyond Generation Rent on the @irishtimes.com podcast.

www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

Tonight at #TheMerode, with my dear friend #LievenDeCauter, we will discuss #Superweak, out with @politybooks.bsky.social. it will be great fun.

The performance of power in politics - LSE Review of Books Performing Power by Marcus Morgan develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of power in politics and beyond.

How important is the art of performance to gaining political power?

Performing Power by Marcus Morgan @politybooks.bsky.social develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of power in politics.

Review by Milica Resanovic @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory - trans. Andrew Brown, @politybooks.bsky.social, July 2026
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The Language of the Conquerors The Language of the Conquerors, By putting language, writing and printing at the centre of his analysis, Serge Gruzinski develops a fresh perspective on the colonization and conversion of the indigeno...

The Language of the Conquerors: When Amerindians Spoke Latin in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Serge Gruzinski

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One of the most decisive consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution, which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies.

By putting language at the centre of his analysis, Serge Gruzinski develops a fresh perspective on colonization.

Immigration by Nancy Foner is out now in the UK.

Drawing on a wealth of research the book makes a powerful case for writing history into the study of contemporary immigration.

What’s new about the immigrant story?

And to what extent have we been there before?

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Rethinking Humanitarianism | The aid sector’s techno-colonialism problem Experts unpack AI and new tech in crises, the fallback on “techno-utopian” solutions, and the risk of “techno-colonialism” and why it matters.

I enjoyed the conversation with @tammam.bsky.social Rana Sweis and Nathaniel Raymond for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on tech & AI in the aid sector - I spoke about my recent book 'Technocolonialism' out with @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @mediacomgold.bsky.social

📚 Dr Rachel O'Neill's #Seduction: #Men, #Masculinity & Mediated Intimacy @politybooks.bsky.social has been translated into Chinese!

👉 For this edition Dr O’Neill wrote a new preface on the book’s relevance in the #Chinese context with former MSc student Kedi Zhou: book.douban.com/subject/3783...

Inside the belly of the beast - The Tablet The Closing of the Russian Mind: How Putin’s Ideology Took the Nation HostageANDREI KOLESNIKOV(POLITY, 256 PP, £25)TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE £22.50 • TEL 020 7799

“Writing with both trenchancy and humour, but above all with a fervent and much needed moral clarity, Kolesnikov examines the deep and ancient roots of [Putin’s] ideology,”
- @thetablet.bsky.social review Andrei Kolesnikov's 'The Closing of the Russian Mind'.

www.thetablet.co.uk/books/inside...