CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Our Kind of People: America’s Black Upper Class
Lawrence Otis Graham ’83, one of the country’s most well-known speakers on race and class, spent six years interviewing the…
The Magician’s Tale
The Magician’s Tale (iUniverse) is the story of the Frankel family, who lived in the Lodz Ghetto in 1940s Poland…
Einstein’s Mistake: A Lyric Poem in Prose
Einstein's Mistake by Jan Andrew Buck ’67 explains, for the general audience, how modern theoretical physics can explain the nature…
Unsub
Unsub (Dutton) by Meg Gardiner is a psychological thriller inspired by the Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to…
God in the Here and Now
Author Elizabeth Dallas McLean ’88 spent most of her life as an environmental litigator advocating for the law, environment, and…
Stone Hill in Baltimore: Stories from a Cotton Mill Village
During the early 1900s, in Baltimore, there was no running water in the neighborhood of Stone Hill, let alone telephones…
As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
In As Terrorism Evolves (Cambridge University Press), Seib addresses how terrorism has increased in severity during the period between the…
Invisible Mind: Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
Lasana Haris takes a social neuroscience approach to explain how people can take part in radically motivated violence and then…
Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge
Judge Jon Newman ’53, now in his 45th year in the federal judiciary, writes candidly about what a judge really…
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics. Muslim views on religion, tradition, and…
Bolivar
In this graphic novel, main character Sybil is the only one that notices that her next-door neighbor, Bolivar, is a…
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
This illustrated book by Daniela Bleichmar *05 reveals that people in the American and Europe, from Christopher Columbus to Charles…
Self-Portrait with Boy
Lu Rile, a photographer struggling to make ends meet, is on the point of desperation, until she captures a boy…
Ten Huts
Ten Huts (Wesleyan University Press) documents a series of site-specific huts that Jill Sigman ’89 *98 hand-built from found materials…
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Ashley Dawson argues in Extreme Cities (Verso Books) that cities are ground zero for climate change: They not only contribute…
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Kieran Setiya *02 demonstrates how to survive the challenges of middle age: nostalgia for lost youth, the lives you will…
Architecture Is All Over
The essays in Architecture Is All Over (Columbia University Press) investigate architecture’s ubiquity and diminishment in the early 21st century…
Rituals & Sabbats: Sacred Rites and Seasonal Celebrations
Rituals & Sabbats (Sterling Ethos) is a guide to the most sacred days of the witch year, written by the…
