CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Stone Hill in Baltimore: Stories from a Cotton Mill Village
During the early 1900s, in Baltimore, there was no running water in the neighborhood of Stone Hill, let alone telephones…
As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
In As Terrorism Evolves (Cambridge University Press), Seib addresses how terrorism has increased in severity during the period between the…
Invisible Mind: Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
Lasana Haris takes a social neuroscience approach to explain how people can take part in radically motivated violence and then…
Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge
Judge Jon Newman ’53, now in his 45th year in the federal judiciary, writes candidly about what a judge really…
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics. Muslim views on religion, tradition, and…
Bolivar
In this graphic novel, main character Sybil is the only one that notices that her next-door neighbor, Bolivar, is a…
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
This illustrated book by Daniela Bleichmar *05 reveals that people in the American and Europe, from Christopher Columbus to Charles…
Self-Portrait with Boy
Lu Rile, a photographer struggling to make ends meet, is on the point of desperation, until she captures a boy…
Ten Huts
Ten Huts (Wesleyan University Press) documents a series of site-specific huts that Jill Sigman ’89 *98 hand-built from found materials…
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Ashley Dawson argues in Extreme Cities (Verso Books) that cities are ground zero for climate change: They not only contribute…
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Kieran Setiya *02 demonstrates how to survive the challenges of middle age: nostalgia for lost youth, the lives you will…
Architecture Is All Over
The essays in Architecture Is All Over (Columbia University Press) investigate architecture’s ubiquity and diminishment in the early 21st century…
Rituals & Sabbats: Sacred Rites and Seasonal Celebrations
Rituals & Sabbats (Sterling Ethos) is a guide to the most sacred days of the witch year, written by the…
Casanova’s Secret Wife
Casanova’s Secret Wife (Kensington) is a historical novel by Barbara Lynn-Davis *98, based on the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, and…
Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik *07’s debut novel features Forugh Farrokhzad, an Iranian poet who defied Iranian society. In Song of a Captive…
Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
Coming to My Senses (Clarkson Potter) is the memoir of Alice Waters h’09, and it chronicles how her “little French…
Shrinkage
Shrinkage (Farrago Comics) is a graphic novel about tiny aliens fighting shrunken-down humans in the brain of the president of…
Fresh Complaint
In his first collection of short fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, a creative writing professor, puts his characters in the midst of…
