CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology Viviana Zelizer’s 1997 book has been reissued in this second edition with an updated…
You, Too, Could Write a Poem: Selected Reviews and Essays, 2000-2015
In You, Too, Could Write a Poem (Penguin), David Orr ’96 brings out some of his best work for The…
Calling Mr. Beige: Book One of the Shuttlecocks Series
The mysterious but comedic Calling Mr. Beige (self-published) follows a superstar as his adoring fans, family, and even his dog…
Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
In Unshackling America (St. Martin’s Press) Willard Sterne Randall *84 makes a case against the common narrative that the United…
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Based on a trove of original documents that have only been released in the last 15 years, Stephen Kotkin, the…
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in the American Classroom
Journalist Helen Thorpe ’87 follows 22 refugee teenagers through their first year at an American high school to unspool the…
Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't
In Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook (Harper Wave), co-authors Sukey Novogratz ’89 and Elizabeth Novogratz lay out an eight-week plan…
Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
Drawing on Langston Hughes’s religious writings, Princeton religion professor Wallace Best makes the case that both Hughes and other African-American…
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal
In Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press) , Tisa Joy Wenger *02…
Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
Published on the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Brad S. Gregory *96’s religious history, Rebel in the Ranks (HarperOne)…
Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
In Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (Harvard University Press), Evan Kindley *12 examines the role played by modernist poet-critics…
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
Using comedy and economics, financial comedian Jeff Kreisler ’95 and economist Dan Ariely examine how irrational human behavior overrides good…
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…
