New Books in Language and Translation

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Runes: A Concise History with Tom Birkett (Oxford UP, 2025)

10/23/2026 • 47 min

Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible and illuminating introduction to the history of the runic script, a writing system in use in the medieval North from the Roman Iron Age until the Reformation and beyond. Runes were the only writing system known to Germanic tri… Play episode

Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions: The Roots of Modern Korean with…
Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use
Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David S…
Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo with Timothy T…
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's March 1917 with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney …
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Towards a Poetics of Illness Experi…
David Bentley Hart on Life, Literature, and Baseball (U Notre Dame Press, …
Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalma…
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasiku…
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination with N.S. Gundur
Ilan Stavans on Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation
Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico
Nathan Wainstein, "Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel" (JHU Press, 2026)
How Were Foreign Languages Taught in Early Modern Europe?
James C. Nieh, "The Language of Bees" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Remco E Breuker, "Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Y…
Linguistic Unease in Healthcare
Speech and the City
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise…
Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students
A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish
Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?
Huang Chongkai, "The Formosa Exchange" (Honford Star, 2026)
Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (…
Tsering Döndrup, "The Red Wind Howls" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Yiddish Language During the Holocaust
Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse U…
Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Ter…
Mohamed Alyahyai, "The War" (Dararab for Publishing and Translation, 2026)
Marie Léticée, "Camille's Lakou" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
Daniel Cohnitz and Jussi Haukioja, "Foundations for Metasemantics" (Oxford…
Becoming the System
Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language…
Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin, "Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy: …
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Cu…
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingua…
Islam in English
Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous P…
Romani Grassroots Language Learning
Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang, "Spent Bullets" (HarperVia, 20…
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious W…
Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias …
Learning Languages on Social Media
Matthew R. Crawford and Aaron P. Johnson, "Cyril of Alexandria: Against Ju…
Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and …

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