CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
My Education
(Viking) My Education is an erotically charged novel about youthful passion. After graduate student Regina Gottlieb sets foot on the…
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction
(Metropolis Books/Gordon DeVries Studio) Christopher Rawlins examines the career of Horace Gifford, a widely forgotten architect who died of AIDS…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
(Louisiana State University Press) Looking at the colonization efforts in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century, Thompson explains how…
Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
(Harvard University Press) Hastings and Williams look into why organisms that emit light do so. The book shows how bioluminescence…
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
(Harvard University Press) James Fleming and Linda McClain tackle some of the biggest civil liberties issues of today in their…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Snippet the Early Riser
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers) This children’s book tells the story of snippet, an early-rising snail with early-morning…
The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
(Yale University Press) Plater wrote this book in an attempt to clarify controversy surrounding a Supreme Court case he won…
Upstanding Young Gentlemen
Founded by four students (Joey Edelmann ’13, Cory Furlong ’13, Javier Masis ’13, and Nathan Tyrell ’14) in 2011, Burne…
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
(Princeton University Press) Examining the long relationship between poetry and pictures, primarily from antiquity to the renaissance, Barkan notices that…
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…
Black Dahlia & White Rose
(Harper Collins) Aiming to show the world’s darker side, this book of 11 previously uncollected short stories has a broad…
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…