CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age
(Yale University Press) The author explores a surprising preoccupation with the disrobing of the king in the golden age of…
Lives of the Artists
(Henry Holt) In this collection of profiles that first appeared in The New Yorker, the author examines the personal and…
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
(Princeton University Press) “Was George Bush the heir of Woodrow Wilson?” So begins this timely exploration of the relationship between…
Adaptations: Disquisitions on Psychoanalysis 1997-2006
(Word Association) In this collection of 10 speeches patterned after the style of Sigmund Freud and coupled with the humor…
Blood and Ice
(Bantam) In this thriller, journalist Michael Wilde — on a dive in the polar sea — stumbles upon two frozen…
When Baby Brings the Blues: Solutions for Postpartum Depression
(Wiley) By using up-to-date research and her own experience as a psychiatrist, the author offers mothers suffering from postpartum depression…
Nights in the Pink Motel
(Naval Institute Press) In this memoir, the author, a retired foreign-service officer and fiction writer, recounts his time in Iraq…
Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History
(University of Illinois Press) Looking at American folk songs as a frame for the American experience, Wells shows how particular…
Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design
(Broadview Press) Morton, a philosopher of science and an atheist, analyzes the arguments for the doctrine of intelligent design —…
Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry
(University of Pennsylvania Press) The author examines the paradoxical ideals in the medieval code of chivalry: Required to be devout…
Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
(University of Pennsylvania Press) In this book, Powers argues that a series of radical moves were made in the first…
Blue Boy
(Kensington) In this debut novel, Kiran Sharma, a 12-year-old Indian-American living in suburban Cincinnati, doesn’t fit in with other Indian…
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
(University of Illinois Press) During Japanese internment during World War II, the U.S. authorities turned photographs against Japanese Americans while…
First Things When
(Carcanet) In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the power of snow, rootless places in modern society such…
Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli
(Rutgers University Press) A true tale of an American sailor, William Ray, and his crew who were captured during the…
The Clinical Manual for Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychotic Depression
(American Psychiatry Press) A resource for clinicians and students, this manual is a comprehensive guide to assessment, treatment, and management…
Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy
(Oxford University Press) The author examines the new breed of journalists that came to the fore in post-revolutionary America and…
The Jerusalem File
(Europa Editions) Set in Jerusalem amid the Arab-Israeli conflict, this posthumously published novel follows Levin, an ex-Israeli security service officer…