CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Robert’s Rules of Writing (Second Edition): 111 Unconventional Lessons Every Writer Needs to Know
Designed for all types of writers, this second edition of Robert’s Rules of Writing offers a plethora of tips and…
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America
By analyzing the economic development of America in the 18th and 19th centuries, Trading Freedom (University of Chicago Press) attempts…
The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City
Reflecting on the intersectional nature of Plato’s psychology and political philosophy, with special attention to the spirited portion of the…
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
In her latest book, history professor Laura Edwards traces law, commerce, and industry through textiles, the prominent people involved in…
Recitatif
Morrison’s only published short story, Recitatif (Knopf) was first published in 1983 and follows the lives of two women, Twyla…
Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York
One night in August 1930, newly appointed judge and prominent Manhattanite Joseph Force Crater suddenly vanished after hailing a taxi…
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Though medicine is often viewed as a strictly scientific practice, personal narrative is fundamental to doctor-patient dialogues. In Medical Storyworlds…
L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Entre exemples et modèles
In this French-language text, Champy examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s representation of antiquity. Using the Roman Republic as a model, L’Antiquité politique…
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
The Price of Slavery (University of Virginia Press) explores Caribbean thinkers’ critiques and reinterpretations of Marxist ideas about capitalism and…
Our Kind of People
A story of riches to ruin, Our Kind of People (Putnam) follows the Wilcox family in 19th century New York…
Hindu Chaplaincy
A collaboration between Chander and two other authors, Hindu Chaplaincy (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies) examines the demand for Hindu…
Living Weapon
Phillips’ latest poetry collection speaks to our dangerous and difficult political moment. An imaginative work, Living Weapon (Farrar, Straus and…
Trust
Passionate lovers Pietro and Teresa make each other a promise: they will each confess a secret they’ve never told anyone…
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Richardson re-centers the study of migrating peoples in Roma in the Medieval Islamic World (Bloomsbury Publishing), which investigates the literary…
Immortal Alexandros
This fourth installment of Geiger’s Ptolemaios Saga pits Persian emperor Darius III against Alexander the Great, as the latter king…
A Practical Guide to Organizational Ombuds
In his new book, Howard explains the concept and importance of “organizational ombuds,” or appointed representatives that facilitate conflict resolution…
The Door-Man
In 1917, young paleontologist Winifred Goldring discovers that the construction site of a new reservoir in Gilboa, New York, contains…
Master of the Midcentury: The Architecture of William F. Cody
In the first book devoted to the life and work of William F. Cody, the authors include a wide variety…


















