CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Mapmaker’s Daughter
In this historical novel, Queen Mother Nurbanu, on her deathbed, tells the story of how she went from being an…
The Cheapskate’s Handbook: A Guide to the Subtleties, Intricacies, and Pleasures of Being a Tightwad
Mifflin Lowe ’70 is back again with a re-published edition of The Cheapskate’s Handbook (Familius), which is full of hilarious…
Flight Season
Flight Season (Wednesday Books) is the story of TJ and Vivi, two teenagers with a hospital internship for the summer…
Earthling
James Longenbach *85, author of six volumes of literary criticism and four books of poetry, delivers another volume of poems…
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
Religions and mythologies teach that God or gods created humans, but atheist and humanist critics have tried to argue that…
Promise
Promise (LSU Press), features short lyric poems that are contemplative vignettes of daily life and that seriously examine friendship, marriage…
Fire Sermon
Married 20 years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is draw into a passionate affair…
Ever the Leader: Selected Writings 1995-2016
Although deceased, William Bowen *58 still has wisdom to impart. Ever the Leader (Princeton University Press) is a selection of…
Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Around Chigusa (Princeton University Press) investigates how a humble jar of Chinese origin dating back to the 13th or 14th…
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion and Art at the Roman Street Corner
The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome aren’t the ones you think of, like Neptune or Artemis or Jupiter. Instead…
Counting Sheep
In Counting Sheep (CreateSpace), a new children’s book by Graham Best ’90, a very surprised boy wakes to a bedroom…
The Origin of Others
Toni Morrison reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and have come to dominate national a world politics: race…
Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
Hunting El Chapo (Harper) is the inside story of the American lawman whose dangerous eight-year hunt led to the capture…
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
A Moonless, Starless Sky (Hachette) weaves together four stories of ordinary people doing the extraordinary: a couple who were kidnapping…
Sun in Days
Meghan O’Rourke writes of the frailty of the body, longing for a child, and the permanence of loss in Sun…
Collected Poems
Galway Kinnell’s life’s work comes together for the first time in Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin), which includes his book-length poem…
Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
After the Great Depression and the Second World War, literary writers could no longer rely on wealthy benefactors, so they…
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
In An Odyssey (Knopf), classicist Daniel Mendelsohn *94’s father, at age 81, decides to audit his course on Homer’s Odyssey…
