Charles McClelland ’62 provides background to the current debate over the value of “research universities” with an in-depth look at…

“What is the evidence?” This is the question author and statistician Howard Wainer *68 asks in his new book Truth…

Rick James combined rock and funk to become one of the biggest pop stars of his era. In two posthumously…

Flash fiction can be anything from prose poems to lists, and in Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press)…

All-American (Archway Publishing), a young adult novel, tells the story of Indigo Washington, a Philadelphia high-school student and aspiring filmmaker…

Thanks to computational capacities now available, systems biology is experiencing a departure from biology’s traditional focus on individual molecules, concentrating…

The 1958 architects’ competition for Toronto’s new city hall and public square garnered more than 500 entries and became the…

Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe (Katiedan Publishing) is a love story, set in a future when the United States has become…

Retirement expert Philip Moeller explains your Medicare choices — such as the differences between parts A, B, C, and D…

We rely on resolve to explain most phenomena in international politics, but many don’t understand what it is, how it…

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton University Press) is the first complete biography of the influential German-American intellectual who wrote The…

Henry Morgenthau ’39 has written his first book of poetry, A Sunday in Purgatory (Passager Books), in which he reflects…

The Radius of Us (St. Martin’s Press) tells the story of Gretchen Asher, a sheltered white girl living in a…

War Porn (Soho Press) is Roy Scranton *16’s first novel. It follows the lives of a restless young woman at…

In our pluralistic society, some think tolerance results in moral compromises while others dismiss it as political correctness. In Tolerance…

On the 60th anniversary of the Suez Crisis of 1956, Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East…

Barbara Brenner *77, who died in 2013, was an influential breast cancer activist and executive director of Breast Cancer Action…

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing assimilation with the culture, as in mainline Protestant churches, and…