CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle
Though Paul is seen as the writer of timeless Christian theology, he maintained that he lived and worked in the…
Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
In the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, a variety of conquered territory became part of the British empire, from…
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
First published in 1979, Morals and Markets (Columbia University Press) pointed out the bizarre ins and outs of life insurance…
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation
Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism, especially now that interpretation asks us to look right through it, and yet…
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
To tell the story of a beloved cousin’s death, Danielle Allen ’93 shifts between her private anguish and a scholar’s…
Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity
Emmet Gowin, professor emeritus of the visual arts, has photographed more than 1,000 species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil…
