CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
