CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature
Michael Graziano ’89, a neuroscience professor at Princeton, explains that every person has a bubble of space around them —…
Number One Chinese Restaurant
Number One Chinese Restaurant (Henry Holt) is a novel about the lives of the waiters and the waitresses at the…
California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader
California Greenin’ (Princeton University Press) argues that California became a leader in environmental legislation because it had so much to…
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
Gary Krist ’79 explores three visionaries behind the rise of Los Angeles in The Mirage Factory (Crown): William Mulholland, an…
Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
The devil is one of the key figures in blues music. Beyond the Crossroads (UNC Press) goes deeper than the…
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (Oxford University Press) covers scholarship from fields as diverse as philosophy, economics, and environmental…
The New Wealth of Nations
Surjit S. Bhalla *72 *77 argues that the new wealth of the world is education, which has allowed for income…
Readers’ Liberation: The Literary Agenda
Readers’ Liberation (Oxford University Press) offers arguments for the importance of literature and reading in the age of the internet…
The Railroad and the Art of Place
Over six winters in the 1990s, David Kahler *62 and his wife traveled to the coalfields in West Virginia and…
Our Nation’s Capital: Pro Bono Public Ideas
In Our Nation’s Capital (International Arts and Artists), architect Arthur Cotton Moore ’58 *60 presents his ideas for enhancing the…
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
The 19th century saw huge expansion in cities and revolutions in transportation and science, accompanied by a changing intellectual landscape…
I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life
Greg Gilhooly ’86 wanted to play professional hockey, but that drive was stolen from him when at 15, he fell…
The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Transforming progressive ideas into practice, the French military was one of the few institutions to actualize Enlightenment theories. The Military…
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
During World War II, there was significant Japanese sympathy among African Americans who thought that Japan’s superpower status undermined white…
Dream Things True
Marie Marquardt ’94’s 2015 novel Dream Things True (St. Martin’s Press) is being re-released in paperback. Marquardt tells the story…
Make a List: How A Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts
In Make a List (Eerdmans), Marilyn McEntyre *84 goes beyond the shopping list, showing readers how listing deeper things such…
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
Ibn Khaldun, who lived from 1332-1406, was an influential mind in the Arab world. Through his new book, Ibn Khaldun…
The Princeton Eating Clubs
The Princeton Eating Clubs (Princeton Landmark Publications) investigates the history and origins of Princeton’s eating clubs, as well as focusing…


















