CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
A Moonless, Starless Sky (Hachette) weaves together four stories of ordinary people doing the extraordinary: a couple who were kidnapping…
Sun in Days
Meghan O’Rourke writes of the frailty of the body, longing for a child, and the permanence of loss in Sun…
Collected Poems
Galway Kinnell’s life’s work comes together for the first time in Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin), which includes his book-length poem…
Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
After the Great Depression and the Second World War, literary writers could no longer rely on wealthy benefactors, so they…
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
In An Odyssey (Knopf), classicist Daniel Mendelsohn *94’s father, at age 81, decides to audit his course on Homer’s Odyssey…
Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle
Though Paul is seen as the writer of timeless Christian theology, he maintained that he lived and worked in the…
Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
In the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, a variety of conquered territory became part of the British empire, from…
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
First published in 1979, Morals and Markets (Columbia University Press) pointed out the bizarre ins and outs of life insurance…
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation
Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism, especially now that interpretation asks us to look right through it, and yet…
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
To tell the story of a beloved cousin’s death, Danielle Allen ’93 shifts between her private anguish and a scholar’s…
Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity
Emmet Gowin, professor emeritus of the visual arts, has photographed more than 1,000 species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil…
Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 ignited fires that razed half the city, creating a need for massive reconstruction. Joanna…
Dialogues with Jay: On Life and the Afterlife
In Dialogues with Jay (Wipf and Stock Publishers), five people from three generations meet to share their thoughts on life…
Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball
Humor writer Adam Ruben ’01 traces the history of pinball, from the gambling and war-themed machines to the arcade revolution…
Hyacinth & The Secrets Beneath
When 12-year-old Hyacinth moves to London, she accidentally unleashes an ancient magical force resulting in the kidnapping of her mother…
European Archaeology as Anthropology: Essays in Memory of Bernard Wailes
While most archaeologists drew their models for the emergence of social complexity from the ancient Middle East or Latin America…
The Barbarians
Ancient Greece and Rome, to our modern minds, are discrete places that influenced Western culture, but Peter Bogucki remind us…
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
In The Arabic Freud (Princeton University Press), Omnia El Shakry *02 challenges the notion that there is a strict divide…
