09/07/2026
What have our crew been doing in their day jobs?
We’ve got a full slate of fresh titles by Ideas on Fire authors this September to kick off the new semester. 📚 Which books will you dive into this month?
Learn more and grab your copies: https://ideasonfire.net/new-books-in-september-2026/
🛂 NATURALIZATION: A Q***R GENEALOGY OF US CITIZENSHIP, RACE, AND SEXUALITY
Siobhan Somerville
Duke University Press
An illuminating genealogy exposing how US citizenship law reinforces settler colonialism through racialized and sexualized definitions of belonging.
🍵 PATH OF THE TEABOWL
Meghen Jones
University of Hawai'i Press
A beautiful catalog of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum's exhibit Path of the Teabowl, tracing the history and culture of this iconic genre.
🏝️ ISLAND BODIES: TRANSGRESSIVE SEXUALITIES IN THE CARIBBEAN IMAGINATION, 2ND ED.
Rosamond S. King
University Press of Florida
A multilingual analysis of Caribbean cultural production challenging sexual norms through q***r desire, gender transgression, and diasporic creativity.
⚗️ NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE
E. R. Truitt
University of Pennsylvania Press
A fascinating history of the medieval thinking undergirding modern science and narratives of progress.
🎥 THE INTIMATE VIOLENCE OF SOUTH KOREAN AND JAPANESE CINEMA
Se Young Kim
Routledge
A compelling theorization of intimate violence in South Korean and Japanese cinema from the 1990s to today.
