CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
