CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
(W.W. Norton) Instead of focusing on Einstein’s many successes, Ohanian turns to his mistakes, both careless and fruitful, in this…
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 Jerusalem File
(Europa Editions) Set in Jerusalem amid the Arab-Israeli conflict, this posthumously published novel follows Levin, an ex-Israeli security service officer…
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 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…
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…
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
(Princeton University Press) For just over one year, Peter Moskos served as a police officer in the high-crime area of…
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
(University of California Press) In this analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Di-Capua examines the Egyptian experience of modernity…
Transmigration: Poems
(Sheep Meadow Press) In this collection of poems, the author examines marriage, falling in and out of love, the soul…
The First American Women Architects
(University of Illinois Press) The author traces the lives and careers of more than 70 pioneering female architects practicing in…
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
(University of California Press) The art of dissimulation, practiced widely in early modern Europe, allowed princes, aristocrats, and commoners alike…
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View
(Routledge) In this book Geltzer examines the communicative aspects and implications of U.S. counter-terrorist policies toward al-Qaeda, looking specifically at…
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…