BOOKS
New books by alumni and faculty
Lauren Ling Brown ’12 Recommends Chilling Mysteries
Brown’s debut novel, Society of Lies, follows an alumna investigating the death of her sister, who was in an exclusive Princeton social club
‘Intimacies’ by Katie Kitamura ’99
‘I don’t know that we can always be reduced to events that have happened in our past …. I’m very much interested in the way that characters behave in the…
Bianca Bosker ’08 on Cracking Open the Art World
‘How does an artwork go from being the germ of an idea in someone’s studio to this masterpiece that we obsess over in museums?’
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
See allExcited Delirium
The term “excited delirium syndrome” is one medical examiner Charles Welti came up with in the 1980s to describe the…
How To Date a Black Girl
Everything in Taylor Coleman’s life is going right. Now in her mid-30s, her career and love life are exactly on…
An End to the Upside Down Cosmos
The latest in Gober’s An End to the Upside Down series, this time he’s tackling the cosmos. Using commonly held…
Building Culture
Made for architects and art lovers, Building Culture (Princeton Architectural Press) gives readers an inside look at the world of…
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PAW Book Club
See allPAW Book Club: ‘Going Infinite’ by Michael Lewis ’82
“On the witness stand, [Sam Bankman-Fried] came across as more dishonest than I’ve ever experienced him in life.”
PAW Book Club: ‘The Breakaway’ by Jennifer Weiner ’91
“Abortion is a topic that gets very polarized very, very quickly. And I think that one of the things that fiction can do is give us a level of remove…
NEW BOOKS
See allFiction
Memoirs of a Born Adventurer
This historical fiction is told as a first-person narrative by Lord Higford. Now at the end of his career, Higford…
The Longest Exile
The Longest Exile (Little Piggy Publishing) drops readers in the year 8 A.D. in Rome where Julia is four months…
We Carry the Sea in Our Hands
As a Korean orphan, Abby Rodier experienced a tumultuous upbringing in the American foster care system. The experience left her…
Nonfiction
The B-Side of Paradise
In this memoir, D’Alessandro tells his truth about what it was like coming-of-age at Princeton University in the 1970s. In…
Exit Interview
Professor of art and archaeology Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh, an art historian, engage in a critical discussion about the…
Emerging Markets in a World of Chaos
Macroeconomist and private sector specialist Ali Zafar explores the dynamics of emerging markets in the global economy. Zafar’s experience in…
Editors’ Picks
Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander
In this new fiction collection, Swann captures the eeriness and uncertainty the world experienced during the onset of the pandemic…
First Impressions
Through an examination of the first two print editions of Sefer Hasidim, Skloot examines the history of the creative adaptation…
Mo’ne Davis: Remember My Name — My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer
This memoir by Mo’ne Davis, who, at age 13, was the first female pitcher to win a game in the…
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
Based on interviews with 360 leaders in government, academia, the entertainment business, and the business world, Lindsay’s study looks at…
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