The three authors of Authoritarianism (University of Chicago Press) address the titular subject from different angles, combing their applications of…

Political analyst and historian Andrew Bacevich *82 has collected many of his essays written since 9/11 in Twilight of the…

Functioning as a reference text, Historical Atlas of Central Europe (University of Toronto Press) contains geographical and statistical data on…

As a precious metal, silver has been on the minds of people for millennia. The Story of Silver (Princeton University…

Ari Satok ’14’s second collection of poems, The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up (Amazon), aims to capture the humor and…

Walking Backwards (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is a collection of poems from John Koethe ’67’s previous 10 compilations. It also…

As a way to better direct feminist thought, Vexy Thing (Duke University Press) seeks to nail down the origins and…

The Chinese Pleasure Book (Zone Books) addresses views towards pleasure in early Chinese writings, including how Chinese thinkers viewed long-term…

Drawing from a lengthy report prepared by the International Panel on Social Progress, A Manifesto for Social Progress (Cambridge University…

A sociological profile of Miami, Global Edge (University of California Press) examines the city’s distinct Cuban and Latin culture, the…

Ellie Allen ’16 explains traumatic brain injuries in terms children can understand in her book Bonk! Mommy Was Hit by…

Last Boat Out of Shanghai (Ballantine Books) traces the dramatic story of four young people who fled the city in…

How the Rats Re-Formed Congress (Center for Study of Responsive Law) is a fable featuring rats who trigger a citizens’…

Ralph Nader ’55, longtime activist and former presidential candidate, illustrates in his new book To the Ramparts: How Bush and…

In her second book, Hollywood’s Eve (Simon & Schuster), Lili Anolik ’00 introduces a new generation to the story of…

In The Burning Shores (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Frederic Wehrey *02 delivers a fast-paced narrative tracing Libya post Qadhafi. Blending…

Paul Steinhardt, professor of physics, spent 35 years on a quest to challenge conventional wisdom and find new forms of…

In his sixth novel, John Selby ’68 writes a modern coming-of-age story that delves into the Ojai’s Chumash Indian heritage…