CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age
Despite claiming that everyone is equal, American democracy gives greater voice to the rich than to the underprivileged, especially through…
On War and Writing
Samuel Hynes was a pilot for the Marine Corps during World War II, and over the years he has written…
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Radical Markets (Princeton University Press) offers some counterintuitive ideas for reforming the economy and the country. The authors argue, for…
REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
Amy Sarah Carroll ’90 examines the art produced in the era of NAFTA (1994-2008) in Mexico City and along the…
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
A. Zee explains one of the least understood natural forces: gravity. On Gravity (Princeton University Press) is an accessible yet…
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do
As a society, we are obsessed with efficiency, and big data promises that we will be able to be more…
An Academic Life: A Memoir
The child of academics who fled Germany during Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, Hanna Holborn Gray *82 both…
Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South
James Hudnut-Beumler *89 journeys through the South, observing many different varieties of Christianity in his book Strangers and Friends at…
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…
