CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Assumptions of the Tea Party Movement: A World of Their Own
David Warfield Brown ’59’s Assumptions of the Tea Party Movement: A World of Their Own (Palgrave Macmillan) offers a reassessment…
Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic
Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic (The Monacelli Press) is a collection of essays from art historians, museum curators, and…
The Jekyll Revelation
Robert Masello ’74’s The Jekyll Revelation (47 North) follows Rafael Salazar, modern-day environmental scientist who finds the journal of renowned…
Dogs Build a House
L. Dennis Thompson ’71 writes about David the Great Dane, who is trying to build a house. Dogs Build a…
Why We Need the Humanities
Calls to deemphasize the humanities in the expectation that scientific and technological innovators will be better for the world may…
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Ilinois
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois (Author House) is a history of Jaffe’s careers in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches…
The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People
The Texas Landscape Project (Texas A&M University Press) presents a wealth of data tracking specific environmental changes in the state…
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen (Palgrave Macmillan), a collection of scholarly works edited by Klara Szelak and Dianah…
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
In her memoir, Jennifer Weiner ’91 writes a collection of essays about everything from lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to…
Bees on the Roof
Sam needs to find a seventh-grade science fair project and a way to save the restaurant his father works at…
Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini
Alda Merini is one of Italy’s most beloved living poets, and Susan Stewart brings readers the largest and most comprehensive…
Kafka: The Early Years
Shelley Frisch *81 has just translated the third and final volume of Reiner Stach’s definitive biography, telling the story of…
Beauty’s Hour: A Phantasy
Olivia Shakespear is best known as William Butler Yeats’ mistress, but she was also an important author. Her novel, out…
Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer ’99’s new novel focuses on Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons set during a moment…
Blackacre
Monica Youn ’93 in her new collection of poetry explores fertility and barrenness as she struggles to conceive a child…
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
In his new book, American history professor Sean Wilentz argues that America is built on egalitarianism, but that partisanship is…
We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories
The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in Clare Beams ’04’s collection of short stories, We Show What We Have Learned…
The Real Analysis Lifesaver
Raffi Grinberg ’12 helps students through their first real analysis course and gives them a solid foundation for further study…


















