CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
In City of Dreams (Princeton University Press), Jerald Podair *97 tells a comprehensive story of the controversial building of the…
John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman
John James Audubon was America’s first celebrity scientist, but he was also a self-made man who crafted a larger-than-life identity…
A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa
A Fraught Embrace (Princeton University Press) shows how in the wake of the AIDS pandemic many organizations and compassionate individuals…
For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander Haskell ’92 recovers a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined in…
Wilber’s War (abridged): An American Family’s Journey through World War II
Wilber’s War (Van Dorn Books), based on a trove of wartime letters, is the story of two ordinary Americans, Wilber…
The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion
Stephen Barr *78, both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, addresses a wide range of questions about the…
Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity
Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity (University of Notre Dame Press) relates a series of events— a photography exhibit, lectures…
Paris Undressed: The Secrets of French Lingerie
Most women find lingerie a tangled mélange of silk and lace and are confused about how, when, and where to…
Soft Corruption: How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
In his book Soft Corruption (Rutgers University Press), former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter ’50 recounts his fight to…
Ties
Creative writing professor Jhumpa Lahiri’s newest translation is Domenico Starnone’s novel, Ties (Europa Editions). Vanda and Aldo’s marriage ruptured years…
Refuge
Dina Nayeri ’01 tells the story of an Iranian girl who escapes to America as a child in her novel…
No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming
Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name, calling himself “No One” or “Non-Man” and becoming anonymous even as he…
What Was It For
What Was It For (Rescue Press), winner of the 2015 Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize, is Adrienne Raphel ’10’s…
A Child’s First Book of Trump
A Child’s First Book of Trump (Simon & Schuster), written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated Marc Rosenthal ’71, is…
Heartlessness of Dixie: Alabama at the Millennium
Donald Nolte ’68 and Diana White’s Heartlessness of Dixie (Amazon) provides a look into social and political issues in Alabama’s…
The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smart-Phones to Love—Why We Get Hooked & How We Can Break Bad Habits
We are all vulnerable to addiction, be it constantly checking social media, binge eating, smoking, or any other behavior that…
The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953-1964
Jeffrey S. Hardy *11 discusses how the Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin’s death…
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Westward expansion of the United States is conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and luck. However, as Professor of…
