CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

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Plumes of Memory

Patrick Bernuth ’62

In this book of poetry, Bernuth takes readers to Kyoto, Japan, where he experienced an unforgettable introduction to Japanese art…

Fox

Joyce Carol Oates, professor of creative writing

In this psychological thriller readers meet Francis Fox, a new teacher at Langhorne Academy who becomes quickly beloved by his…

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li, professor of creative writing

A National Book Award finalist, Things in Nature Merely Grow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is Li’s searing memoir of survival…

Kinkakuji and Kitayama

Thomas D. Conlan, professor of East Asian studies and history

Kinkakuji and Kitayama (Brill) traces the extraordinary history of Kinkakuji, a Zen Buddhist temple and major tourist attraction in Kyoto…

Novel Ecologies

Allison Carruth, professor of American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Novel Ecologies (University of Chicago Press) explores the closing gap between ecology and engineering over the last three decades. Carruth…

Leaving Guantanamo

Eric L. Lewis ’79

Eric L. Lewis has represented detainees at Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades, including leading the legal hearings that…

The Loves of My Life

Edmund White, professor emeritus of creative writing

In his final memoir, White reflects on his sex life. The novelist and essayist known as a pioneering figure of…

Attensity!

The Friends of Attention (Peter Schmidt ’20, Alyssa Loh ’12, and D. Graham Burnett ’93, professor of history)

The negative impacts of technology on society cannot be denied. People are glued to their devices, companies are profiting off…

The Float Test

Lynn Steger Strong, lecturer in creative writing

The Float Test (Mariner Books) follows four semi-estranged siblings reunited under unfortunate circumstances — the death of their mother. Jenn…

Unchanged Trebles

Rebekah Peeples *09

In Unchanged Trebles (Rutgers University Press), Peeples explores the world of contemporary boy choirs. Pulling from her own experience as…

Overinvested

Nina Bandelj *03

In her latest book, Bandelj argues that parents have become overinvested in having children. She pinpoints when the shift happened…

The City of Our Dreaming

Laleh Khalili, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Leanne Betasamoske Simpson, and V. Mitch McEwen, assistant professor of architecture Faculty Books

The City of Our Dreaming (Duke University Press) is the written record of the third annual Alchemy Lecture. The series…

The Intentions of Thunder

Patricia Smith, professor of creative writing

A 2025 National Book Award winner, The Intentions of Thunder ( Scribner) is a collection of essential works from Professor…

Bridging Art, Design, and Technology

Aaron Marcus ’65

Part autobiography, part designer monograph, Bridging Art, Design, and Technology ( Springer Nature Switzerland) is a chronological story spanning 70…

Atlas’s Bones

D. Vance Smith, professor of English

Atlas’s Bones ( University of Chicago Press) is a bold reexamination of how deeply African thought shaped what we now…