CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Albert Camus, le souci des autres (Albert Camus: Caring for Others)
(Classiques Garnier) This book pays homage to Camus by closely examining a key aspect of his writing and activism: the…
Writers Writing Dying
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Williams maintains his candor and social conscience while giving new life to his voice in his…
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
(Princeton University Press) An economist who lived through World War II and fought in the Spanish Civil War, Albert O…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Snippet the Early Riser
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers) This children’s book tells the story of snippet, an early-rising snail with early-morning…
The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
(Yale University Press) Plater wrote this book in an attempt to clarify controversy surrounding a Supreme Court case he won…
Upstanding Young Gentlemen
Founded by four students (Joey Edelmann ’13, Cory Furlong ’13, Javier Masis ’13, and Nathan Tyrell ’14) in 2011, Burne…
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
(Princeton University Press) Examining the long relationship between poetry and pictures, primarily from antiquity to the renaissance, Barkan notices that…
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary
(University of Minnesota Press) Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn., and at age 14 started keeping a short diary…
The Word on the Street
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In this book of rock lyrics, Muldoon explores both working-class New Jersey and his Irish roots…
A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
(Sussex Academic Press) This book of essays explores how Jews have viewed dogs through history. The essays look at different…
Black Dahlia & White Rose
(Harper Collins) Aiming to show the world’s darker side, this book of 11 previously uncollected short stories has a broad…
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy
(Duke University Press) Through an examination of American and British poetry from the past two centuries, Fuss argues that poetry…
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830
(Ohio State University Press) Looking at the religious history of the period, Cragwall unsettles the canonical view of Romanticism as…
Italo Calvino, Letters, 1941-1985
(Princeton University Press) Known for his short stories, Italo Calvino was the most-translated contemporary Italian novelist when he died in…
My Education
(Viking) My Education is an erotically charged novel about youthful passion. After graduate student Regina Gottlieb sets foot on the…
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln
(Princeton University Press) Greenstein takes a straightforward look at America’s Civil War-era presidents to show how they contributed to the…