CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Oresteia: Norton Critical Edition
This Norton Critical Edition of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is a new translation by Oliver Taplin, edited by classics professor Josh…
Zen Traces: Exploring American Zen with Twain and Thoreau
Zen Traces (Paul Dry Books) juxtaposes passages from traditional Asian Zen masters’ questioning phrases; modern-day Zen, which has Western influences…
The Penguin Book of Hell
The Penguin Book of Hell (Penguin) is a collection of texts that document human beliefs about hell, ranging from the…
Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
Egypt has been the starting point of all major political and cultural trends in the Arab world in recent decades…
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
A new collection of short fiction from Joyce Carol Oates deals with questions of sex, violence, and desire in stories…
The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe
The cosmic web is a theory of the structure of the universe, which proposes that the universe looks like a…
Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly ’95 writes an authoritative account of film star Bruce Lee’s life. Lee made martial arts popular, bridged the…
The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript
The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript (Cambridge University Press), is a manuscript of the novel just one year…
Stranger: El Desafío de un Inmigrante Latino en la Era de Trump
Jorge Ramos, who was Univision’s anchorman for many years, examines his experience as a Latino immigrant in the present-day United…
Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education
Peter Smith ’68 explains how the concept of learning needs an overhaul in our changing world. In Free-Range Learning in…
Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
From the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II, African Christians changed missionary works to…
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
Christian scholars in the 17th and 18th centuries laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment-era understanding of Islamic civilizations. They were…
1st and Forever
Former president of the National Football Foundation Bob Casciola ’58 defends football in the face of increasing criticism in 1st…
The Adventure of Thomas the Turtle
In this children’s book, Thomas goes to the “forbidden region” of the pond and is separated from his family. The…
An Obituary to Die For
In An Obituary to Die For (Karnac Books), psychiatrist Ben Jordan is pitted against his college friend Jim Melville, who…
The Burdens of Aeneas: A Son’s Memoir of Duty and Love
The Burdens of Aeneas (Mercer University Press) is a series of letters that James C. Abbot, Jr. ’83 wrote to…
Beyond Silicon Valley: How One Online Course Helped Support Global Entrepreneurs
Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University, tells the stories of students around the…
Lyrical Liberators: The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831-1865
During the American antebellum period, antislavery activists used free speech to take on the institution of slavery. Monica Pelaez ’97…
