CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
1668: The Year of the Animal in France
In 1668 France, animals were the new fashionable thing to paint, sculpt, collect, and decorate with, especially if you were…
Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood
Stereotypes of black fathers tend to portray them as either absent or poor role models. A case study of fatherhood…
Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers
Numbers are powerful — and prone to misuse and misinterpretation. Millions, Billions, Zillions (Princeton University Press) is an accessible, example-filled…
The Beautifull Cassandra
Even as a child, Jane Austen was an imaginative writer. At 12, she wrote The Beautifull Cassandra (Princeton University Press)…
