CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
Free as Gods (The University Press of New England) examines the works of the expatriate community in Paris during the…
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Face Value (Princeton University Press) is an accessibly written overview of Princeton psychology professor Alexander Todorov’s extensive work on facial…
Hosta Seizure
Hosta Seizure (Cedarwood Press) is a mystery in which hosta plants help gardeners solve a missing persons case and help…
Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours
Discovering Princeton (Schiffer Publishing) is a photographic and historical guide taking readers through Princeton’s oldest neighborhoods and the campuses of…
Law and Murder
Law and Murder, book two of the Washington Vampires series (Book View Café) is a humorous novel by Mindy Klasky…
What Are the Arts and the Sciences?: A Guide for the Curious
Many of us have been to college or want to go, but may wonder just what the various disciplines represent…
David and the Philistine Woman
Paul Boorstin ’65 reimagines the Biblical story of David and Goliath, depicting female characters not mentioned in the original story…
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer — “Jew Süss” — is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. He…
How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production
Drawing on an extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of Tim…
Lies She Told
In her new novel, Lies She Told (Crooked Lane Books), Cate Holahan ’02 pens a psychological thriller about Liza, a…
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political life, but no one book explained how best to battle it. The…
Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties
Age of Empires (Yale University Press) presents the art of China during one of the most critical periods of its…
Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games
Every time you pick up your PlayStation or Xbox controller, you are entering a game world steeped in mathematics. In…
All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power
Two decades after the Cold War, the world saw unprecedented cooperation among its major powers as leaders converged on a…
Getting to Green, Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Fredric Rich ’77 argues that the green movement in American has stalled and that meaningful progress on environmental issues can…
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Though many now view Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as an example of romanticism or pioneering science fiction, Mary Shelley was aware…
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
Ed Finn ’02 discusses how we believe in algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which books to buy…
Behind the Moon
In Behind the Moon (City Lights Books) Madison Smartt Bell ’79 tells the story of Julie, who skips school on…
