CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
The Egyptian Revolution set out to replace long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak and ended up with military strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi…
The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus
In the first century BCE, worshippers traveled to the Memnon Colossus to receive what they perceived as divine blessing, leaving…
Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, middle sister Mary Bennet is given no more than a dozen lines of…
The Devoted
Nicole Hennessy has committed herself to Zen Buddhism — and to her master at the local Zendo, with whom she…
The Rights Revolution Revisited
The rights revolution brought more than changed laws. In the years following, it has changed the way all branches of…
Back to Beer… and Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson
The Molson family is an institution in Canada, as founders of the Molson Brewery and owners of the NHL team…
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought sudden, massive change to millions of its citizens and also instigated a dramatic…
The Glacier Park Reader
The Glacier Park Reader (University of Utah Press) compiles writings from throughout Glacier National Park’s 100-plus year history, from writers…
The Witch Doctor is In
In The Witch Doctor is In (Res Ipsa Press), Dr. Ashley McDonnell, a witch, must find a way to care…
New Lovers 4: My Wet Hot Drone Summer
This erotic sci-fi novella intertwines romance with themes of personal privacy and surveillance. Set in 2056, it features a recently…
Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text and Image
A Jewish population had a millennia-old presence in Libya until about 1967 after most migrated to Israel or Italy. Jewish…
Rush
In addition to being a founding father and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush, Class of 1760 was…
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
The increasing xenophobia in America and Europe has some worried that democracy is threatened, but The Spectre of Race (Princeton…
Greenberg’s Guide to Lionel Trains, 0 Gauge, Volume 1: 1915-1928
Bruce Greenberg ’65 adds to his research on Lionel trains through his new book, Greenberg’s Guide to Lionel Trains, 0…
A Conversation Larger Than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic
In A Conversation Larger Than the Universe (The Grolier Club), Henry Wessells ’83 presents a history of science fiction through…
Drawing after Architecture: Renaissance Architectural Drawings and Their Reception
In Drawing after Architecture (Marsilio), Yerkes examines how Renaissance architects used images to explore structures, create biographies and write history…
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, developed out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of…
Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice
In Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan (Harvard University Press), Steininger looks at how literary Chinese was used as a…
