CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
(Yale University Press) Though the Enlightenment is known as a time of science and reason, this book reveals the extent…
Technology and Cultural Tectonics: Shifting Values and Meanings
(Palgrave Macmillan) This book explores the challenges and changes to cultural values triggered by technological innovations, such as advances in…
Albert Camus, le souci des autres (Albert Camus: Caring for Others)
(Classiques Garnier) This book pays homage to Camus by closely examining a key aspect of his writing and activism: the…
Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
(Copper Canyon Press) This is the first complete bilingual translation of the entire Buson Kushu, a comprehensive collection of the…
Five Seven Five Sports: 2012 in Haiku — Language of the Games
(AuthorHouse) Hanson’s 366 haiku depict the most memorable moments from the sports world in 2012 and highlight, one day at…
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez ’96
(Duke University Press) Using original research and fascinating case studies, Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in…
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary
(University of Minnesota Press) Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn., and at age 14 started keeping a short diary…
The Word on the Street
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In this book of rock lyrics, Muldoon explores both working-class New Jersey and his Irish roots…
A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
(Sussex Academic Press) This book of essays explores how Jews have viewed dogs through history. The essays look at different…
"Light Horse Harry" Lee In the War for Independence
(The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America) The second in a series on George Washington’s best officers, the book…
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy
(Duke University Press) Through an examination of American and British poetry from the past two centuries, Fuss argues that poetry…
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830
(Ohio State University Press) Looking at the religious history of the period, Cragwall unsettles the canonical view of Romanticism as…
Italo Calvino, Letters, 1941-1985
(Princeton University Press) Known for his short stories, Italo Calvino was the most-translated contemporary Italian novelist when he died in…
My Education
(Viking) My Education is an erotically charged novel about youthful passion. After graduate student Regina Gottlieb sets foot on the…
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln
(Princeton University Press) Greenstein takes a straightforward look at America’s Civil War-era presidents to show how they contributed to the…
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
(Princeton University Press) An economist who lived through World War II and fought in the Spanish Civil War, Albert O…
Writers Writing Dying
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Williams maintains his candor and social conscience while giving new life to his voice in his…