CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
John McPhee ’53 digs deep into his decades-long career as journalist to share his expertise in Draft No. 4 (Farrar…
Daddy Drinks: Six Dads Trying to Get it Right — While Getting it Hilariously Wrong
The story behind Daddy Drinks (Post Hill Press) starts with six L.A. writers and actors who have retired from the…
Reclaiming Israel’s History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace
In this wide-ranging survey, David Brog ’88 unpacks 3,000 years of Israeli history. Brog endeavors to separate fact from fiction…
The Adventures of Mrs. Patropolis
When a giant bagel starts dancing, or a saber-tooth goes missing at the natural history museum, or an ancient Egyptian…
The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History
One of the most litigated, convoluted provisions of the Constitution, the contract clause has played an outsized roll in American…
Rethinking Political Islam
This collection of essays analyzes the condition of political Islam in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the rise…
A Life of Adventure and Delight
In this collection of eight fictional short stories, Akhil Sharma ’92 chronicles the lives Indians at home and abroad and…
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems (Gray Wolf) is a new collection by Lewis Center Fellow Erika L. Sánchez that draws upon…
Intimacy with the Wind
Intimacy with the Wind (Finishing Line Press) by Carla Schwartz *84 is a collection of poems inspired by the author’s…
The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
The Perpetual Now (Doubleday) tells the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, who previously designed New Yorker covers and now suffers…
A Duplicate Daughter
A Duplicate Daughter (Harvard Square Editions), by Randy Nelson *76, about the relationship between a father and a daughter set…
She Receives the Night
She Receives the Night (Vine Leaves Press) by Robert Earle ’72 is a collection of 22 short stories, many of…
Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy
Ladies’ Greek (Princeton University Press) by Yopie Prins *91 chronicles the pursuit of classical literacy by women in the late…
Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
Communism’s Shadow (Princeton University Press), by Princeton professor Grigore Pol-Eleches of the Woodrow Wilson School and NYU politics professor Joshua…
The Peace of the Gods: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic
The Peace of the Gods (Princeton University Press), by former Princeton Classics lecturer professor Craige B. Champion *93, examines religion…
Victorian Pain
Victorian Pain (Princeton University Press), by Rachel Ablow ’91, is a new analysis of the literary and philosophical history of…
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
In Vanguard of the Revolution (Princeton University Press) former Princeton professor of politics A. James McAdams looks broadly at Communism…
One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and The Politics of Global Health
One Blue Child (Stanford University Press) is an ethnographic examination of dealing with asthma in the age of increased self-management…


















