CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Looking for Lorraine (Beacon) charts the as-yet-unsung life of artist Lorraine Hansberry. Before her untimely death at age 34, she…
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Author Nell Painter spent 30 years as an eminent historian, including 17 years at Princeton. Then she changed direction –…
After the Carolingians
Manuscript illumination became more widespread and varied in the 10th and 11th centuries. After the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in…
Days of Awe
Days of Awe (Viking) is a collection of 12 new short stories from writer A.M. Homes, built around complex relationships…
Alexander Girard, Architect: Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces
Alexander Girard, Architect (Wayne State University Press) focuses on the titular designer’s work in Detroit, and especially the inventive midcentury…
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
While slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago, its ramifications echo into the present. Deep Roots (Princeton University Press)…
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Developed partly in response to criticisms of modern science and literature rarely interacting, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science…
Complaint: Grievance Among Friends
Complaint (University of Illinois Press) focuses on how complaint and complainers are perceived and presented in culture and philosophy. Literary…
A Literary Tour De France
Robert Darnton has spent more than a half century studying book distribution in pre-Revolutionary France, mainly in the extensive archives…
The Doctor Faustus Dossier
The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951 (University of California Press) is a collection of…
The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
Before Errol Morris became a well-known documentarian, he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley — and before that, he…
The Queen of Sorrow: The Queens of Renthia, Book 3
The Queens of Sorrow (Harper Voyager), the conclusion to The Queens of Renthia trilogy, finds Queens Naelin and Daleina of…
The Universe as It Really Is: Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
In the years before his death in 2017, Thomas Scott ’66 was dean of the College of Sciences at San…
Second Time Around
The second entry in Herkness’ Second Glances series, Second Time Around (Montlake Romance) brings cook Kyra Dixon into the arms…
Arthur Ashe: A Life
More than just a world-famous tennis player, Arthur Ashe was an accomplished civil rights and AIDS activist, businessman, and writer…
My Squirrel Days
Comedian and actress Ellie Kemper ’02 has won acclaim for her performances in The Office and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt…
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
The fourth memoir of writer Edmund White frames his life around the books that have meant the most to him…
On Color
On Color (Yale University Press) deconstructs the impact of colors on every corner of life and culture – social, political…
