Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury) explores how legal systems on both sides of the Atlantic responded to modernism, including obscenity…

Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians (UNC Press) collects the writing of more…

Who Owns the News? (Stanford University Press) explores the delicate connection between news organizations, facts, and copyright. It examines how…

A memoir from architectural consultant Eva Hagberg Fisher ’03, How to Be Loved (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) intimately explores how Fisher…

More than a century before the Great Depression, the Panic of 1819 disrupted the lives and livelihoods of thousands of…

Painful moments from her days as a student activist come back to haunt Lena in Those Who Knew (Viking) when…

In Our Universe (Belknap Press) , professor Jo Dunkley’s goal is to make astrophysics accessible. Beginning with an overview of…

Robert A. Lovett and the Development of American Air Power (McFarland Books) is a biography of the nation’s fourth Secretary…

The debut novel of Lydia Fitzpatrick ’04, Lights All Night Long (Penguin Press) follows Ilya, a foreign-exchange student from Russia…

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…