CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK
The open-source music language ChucK is designed for digital musicians. Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK…
Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
In Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon, Thomas Barton ’98 examines how the Jews in Spain…
Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects
By examining photography as articulated in literature, film, and graphic novels, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects demonstrates how in many…
Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography
In this study of medieval painting in the 13th century, Jaroslav Folda ’62 discusses the transformation of the Virgin as…
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
In The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor, Jonathan Rose ’74 examines British prime minister Winston Churchill from a fresh perspective…
Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs
To strengthen their marriage and prepare them for parenthood, David Hlavsa ’84 and his wife, Lisa, walk the Camino de…
Impersonation
Impersonation is a collection of poetry written over the course of 10 years as Joy (formerly Jay) Ladin *00 transitioned…
Windward Calm
George Harris’ latest novel, Windward Calm, follows police chief Richard Widemarch as he searches for a missing girl. The only…
The Tycoon’s Ambassadors: Captain Du Pont and the Japanese Embassy of 1860
In 1860, a delegation of 76 Japanese men traveled to the United States on an ambassadorial mission. They were the…
The Constitution: An Introduction
In a political climate where the Affordable Care Act, the right of marriage, and NSA surveillance are hot-button issues, constitutional…
Submission and Subjection in Leviathan: Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan imagined a commonwealth dominated by a notoriously powerful sovereign and populated by good citizens desperate to escape…
The Whale that Fell in Love with a Submarine
The Whale that Fell in Love with a Submarine is a collection of children’s stories set on August 15, 1945…
Stone in the Crick
Young Amish quilt-maker Rebecca Zook is resisting the Amish way of life, despite her love for her family and her…
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
Playboy was not just a magazine, but also came to embody a new lifestyle that took place in spaces such…
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud produced in late ancient Mesopotamia, Moulie Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud’s…
Talk of Many Things
In this memoir, Gowen recounts his childhood in Italy and his diverse career and travel experiences. A New York City…
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book
Walter’s book is a collection of essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in The Sketch Book. This volume, part of…
Rocket Crockett and The Shanghai She-Devil
In this homage to 1950s pulp fiction, Lt. Rufus “Rocket” Crockett battles gangsters on the streets of Harlem, assassins in…