CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Prudence
Prudence (Riverhead Books) is the fourth novel by David Treuer ’92, a literature and creative writing professor at the University…
Downtown by History and Choice: First Presbyterian Church of Durham, North Carolina, 1871-2013
Downtown by History and Choice (Carolina Academic Press) is a historical account of a congregation during the Reconstruction period as…
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Why do we catch colds? What causes the seasons to change? Cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman ’01 explores the…
Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America
Conventional wisdom says that governments tolerate the violation of their laws and regulations — by people such as squatters and…
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
Elastic Architecture (MIT Press) explores the work of Frederick Kiesler, a man who bucked architectural trends to create more organic…
Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
Geek Girl Rising (St. Martin’s Press) gives a much-needed voice to the female engineers, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators paving an…
Castle of Water
In this novel, a female architect and male financier find they are the sole survivors of a plane crash in…
Death by Syrup: The Authentic Adventures of Karol “Karl” Szczygielajczyk, Esq.
The legal spoof Death by Syrup (Createspace) follows a young attorney, who unexpectedly receives a number of bizarre but potentially…
Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Colorado Representative Ken Buck, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, tells all in his book Drain the Swamp (Regnery…
Saving Charlotte
Saving Charlotte (W.W. Norton) is a vivid memoir about author Pia de Jong ‘66’s daughter’s battle with leukemia. De Jong…
Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
Hotel Scarface (Berkeley) tells the story of Mutiny, a boutique hotel and disco that served as Miami’s gateway to cocaine…
The Reluctant Queen
In her second book in the Queens of Renthia series, The Reluctant Queen (Harper Voyager) tells the story of Daleina…
The End of Eddy
Michael Lucey *89 translates Edouard Louis’ autobiographical novel, The End of Eddy (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), about growing up gay…
Tattooed Memory
Tattooed Memory (L’Harmattan) is the first book by Moroccan novelist Abdelkebir Khatibi about his childhood memory of French colonialism. Part…
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…
