CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Written by two activists and based on archival research and interviews, Set the Night on Fire is a comprehensive history…
My Eccentric Family: Memories from a Communist, Mafioso, Zionist
Norman Cantor ’64 chronicles his parents’ lives and careers, and eventually his own, in this new memoir. Born to a…
Hysteria
Hysteria follows a young woman living in Brooklyn, who meets a mysterious new bartender at her regular bar. Through their…
Becoming Monday
Written by a professional in technological innovation, Becoming Monday is a science-fiction novel told from the perspective of a sentient…
Artists of Wyeth Country: Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth
This illustrated biography of famous painters from the 1930s and 1940s features historical photography and interviews that bring new light…
The New Species of Writing
A study of the emergence of the English novel in the 18th century, William Park ’51 delves into studies of…
We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
Charles Wheelan *93 chronicles his family’s world travelling gap year in We Came, We Saw, We Left. With a strong…
A Heart Made Whole: My Spiritual Journey
A memoir on the spiritual growth of Farley Jones ’65, A Heart Made Whole begins in the 1960s, when he…
Where Law Ends: Inside The Mueller Investigation
Andrew Weissmann ’80, a member of Robert Mueller’s team in investigating President Trump, tells the story of the creation of…
The Haitians: A Decolonial History
The Haitians: A Decolonial History focuses on the political imagination of Haitians as they radically rejected the colonial order and…
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
What Were We Thinking presents an intellectual history of the Trump era from the perspective of Washington Post book reviewer…
Cleared for Takeoff: Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller
In a series of stories of close calls and FAA bureaucracy, Cleared for Takeoff illustrates the experiences of an air…
Eleanor
David Michaelis ’79 chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt’s life through the lens of her own search for personal freedom in her relationships…
Fly by Night Physics: How Physicists Use the Backs of Envelopes
Fly by Night Physics is a physics primer that aims to give undergraduate students intuitive, rather than strictly mathematical, ways…
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel
The Death of Things calls back to a time, without the internet, where some things were designed to disappear forever…
Way of Now: Nowflow for Meditation, Peak Performance, and Daily Life
Way of Now analyzes the universal concepts of being “in the now” and “in the flow.” From both a rational…
The Anointed
Two former associates with elite Wall Street law firms discuss their experiences at institutions of “patrician snobbery.” More than their…
