CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities

Jessica Joyce Christie, Eulogio Guzmán, and Jelena Bogdanović *08

Using the methodology presented in Adam Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Politics, this group of…

The Jekyll Revelation

Robert Masello ’74

Robert Masello ’74’s The Jekyll Revelation (47 North) follows Rafael Salazar, modern-day environmental scientist who finds the journal of renowned…

Why We Need the Humanities

Donald L. Drakeman *88

Calls to deemphasize the humanities in the expectation that scientific and technological innovators will be better for the world may…

Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Ilinois

Charles M. Barber ’60

Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois (Author House) is a history of Jaffe’s careers in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches…

Bees on the Roof

Robbie Shell ’71

Sam needs to find a seventh-grade science fair project and a way to save the restaurant his father works at…

Kafka: The Early Years

Reiner Stach, Translated by Shelley Frisch *81

Shelley Frisch *81 has just translated the third and final volume of Reiner Stach’s definitive biography, telling the story of…

Beauty’s Hour: A Phantasy

Olivia Shakespear, Edited by Anne Margaret Daniel *99

Olivia Shakespear is best known as William Butler Yeats’ mistress, but she was also an important author. Her novel, out…

Here I Am

Jonathan Safran Foer ’99

Jonathan Safran Foer ’99’s new novel focuses on Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons set during a moment…

Blackacre

Monica Youn ’93

Monica Youn ’93 in her new collection of poetry explores fertility and barrenness as she struggles to conceive a child…