CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Your Hidden Superpowers: How the Whole Truth of Failure Can Change Our Lives
Your Hidden Superpowers: How the Whole Truth of Failure Can Change Our Lives (Severn River Publishing) offers a fresh perspective…
Chicago Night Show: Poetry
In this poetry collection, Charles M. Brock ’63 reflects on the past 50 years from commendable human achievement to reprehensible…
This Time Will Be Different
In this contemporary coming-of-age novel, teenager CJ finds herself enamored by the creative outlet she gets while working at her…
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
In The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (University of Chicago Press), Laurence Ralph details the shockingly dense history of…
End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World (Hachette) broaches an uncomfortable topic: human extinction. Scientist and…
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
In The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China (PublicAffairs), NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt…
The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
Drawing on interviews with civilians and military officials, Army Lt. Col. Brendan R. Gallagher *17 argues that America’s seeming inability…
Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World
In this volume, Michael Wexler ’92 and Philip Wexler *72 explore the social ideas and activism espoused by Rabbi Menachem…
The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe
In The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe (Chickadee Prince Books), Granville Wyche Burgess ’69 introduces a young textile mill worker…
Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy
Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy (Oxford University Press) tells the story of America with the newsboy at…
The Frankenstein of the Apple Crate
The Frankenstein of the Apple Crate (Julia Douthwaite Viglione) is a short story inspired by a true archival discovery written…
Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment
Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (The University of Virginia Press) argues that novels influenced 18th-century debates…
Wounded: Studies in Literary and Cinematic Trauma
Wounded: Studies in Literary and Cinematic Trauma (Mdpi AG) brings together 11 articles that provide a discourse on trauma, from…
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton University Press) grapples with timely issues including trigger warnings, safe spaces…
digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Janet Vertesi and David Ribes’ digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies (Princeton University Press) is a compilation…
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton University Press) highlights the vital role regular…
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition (Princeton University Press) is a…
A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Revised Edition
In this biography of the inventor of the periodic table of elements, Michael. D. Gordin crafts a portrait of the…
