CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Sex in the World of Myth
Drawing on a worldwide range of mythologies, Sex in the World of Myth (Reaktion Books) examines how cultural conceptions of…
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic (Princeton University Press) is a biography of the philosopher’s life, ideas, and many works. A…
The Discrete Charm of the Machine
The Discrete Charm of the Machine (Princeton University Press) examines the history of converting analog signals and machines to digital…
Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of the Literary Underground
Street Players (University of Chicago Press) focuses on the origins and growth of black pulp fiction publisher Holloway House from…
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
For a period of time during the Cold War, it became common to believe that humans’ success among the species…
Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature
Persistence of Folly (Cornell University Press) analyzes German plays from the 16th through 19th century to argue that the inclusion…
The Problem with Helena
Switching between the perspectives of grounded Phoebe and her whimsical author-friend Helena, The Problem with Helena (Amazon) tells a story…
REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
REMEX (University of Texas Press) examines the effect NAFTA had on art in Mexico and near the U.S.-Mexican border, distilling…
It Will Yet Be Heard
This new printing of Rabbi Leon Thorne’s memoir, It Will Yet be Heard (Rutgers University Press), written while living under…
Divided by Partition, United by Resilience
Token: The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan rocked the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on the Indian…
Spin
Spin (Wheatmark) follows a seasoned public-relations executive trying to save a company marred by fraud and sexual harassment allegations, which…
All You Need is Love
In the first such authorized children’s book, All You Need is Love (Simon and Schuster) places the words from The…
Small Walt and Mo the Tow
Small Walt and Mo the Tow (Simon and Schuster) picks up where Small Walt left off, as Walt the Snowplow…
How to be Great at Your Job
A book from advertising executive Justin Kerr ’00 (whose other books include How to Be a Boss and How to…
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Former IDEO design director Ingrid Fetell Lee ’02 uses Joyful (Little, Brown Spark) to analyze the origins and experience of…
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Token: The Occupation of Havana (UNC Press) uses the story of the six-week British siege and subsequent capture of Spanish-held…
Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez/The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
A new translation of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s famous story of Alonso Ramírez and his journeys around the world…
Ornamentalism
Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press) places Asiatic femininity at the center of a new epistemology of race. Through the analysis of…
