CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise
In The Taming of Free Speech (Harvard University Press), Laura Weinrib *11 reevaluates our understanding of the American Civil Liberties…
Warren H. Manning: Landscape Artist and Environmental Planner
Warren H. Manning’s (1869-1938) national practice comprised more than 1,600 landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small…
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century
Ryan P. Harper *13 examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither’s Homecoming video and concert series, a gospel-music franchise that has…
Death on Nantucket
Meredith Folger, a Nantucket police detective, is called upon to investigate the murder of Spencer Murphy, a famous Vietnam War…
Dis mem ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
National Book Award winner and Princeton creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates brings readers seven mysterious and unsettling works in…
Fitter Faster: The Smart Way to Get in Shape in Just Minutes a Day
In Fitter Faster (AMACOM), Robert Davis '86 shows his readers that getting in shape is a lot easier than they…
