CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
In this collection of essays, Daniel Mendelsohn *94 analyzes and comments on a range of issues through classical lens, finding…
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Though most people accept global warming as truth, not everybody acts to combat it. In We Are the Weather: Saving…
Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
Disinformation has become increasingly pervasive in global politics but democracies are struggling to fight it. Richard Stengel ’77 crafts a…
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
In Surprise, Kill, Vanish (Little, Brown, and Company), Annie Jacobsen ’89 uses veteran soldier Billy Vaughn to provide a behind-the-scenes…
Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective
In Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective (Rizzoli), art historian Sasha Nicholas ’00 joins hundreds of Diebenkorn’s works with recent scholarly research…
The Necessary Fiction: Life With James Joyce’s Ulysses
In The Necessary Fiction: Life With James Joyce’s Ulysses (Edward Everett Root Co. Ltd.), Michael Groden *75, a professor on…
Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information
In Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information Revolution (Morgan Kaufmann), Daryl Innis ’83 details the trend away from using chips…
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon (Scholastic Inc.) shows Alan Bean, a pilot with dreams of painting life from the…
Mississippi Reckoning
In Mississippi Reckoning (Hunts Point Press) by Mitchell Zimmerman *65, attorney Gideon Roth watches his life collapse after he sees…
Common Reason and Uncommon Politics: The American Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
Common Reason and Uncommon Politics (Belcrest Press) explores how the philosophy behind the American Revolution can inspire a new political…
Paying it Backward
In Paying it Backward (Hawthorne Books), Tony March and Marvin Karlins *66 detail March’s rise from poverty in Daytona Beach…
American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave
In American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave (Columbia University Press), Dana R. Fisher ’93 traces the…
The Market in Mind
Mark D. Robinson *94 critically analyzes translational science and medicine, a new process of medical development where speed is the…
Cornelia: The First Woman of Rome
In this historical novel, Dan Armstrong ’72 crafts the story of Cornelia, mother to the Gracchi brothers who would ultimately…
Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination
For the past century, Americans have seen Japan as an exotic land, yet its influence has affected all American artforms…
Undetected
Suzy Perry is an accomplished older woman who married into a new family in Westchester County, N.Y. Her new husband…
A Sinister Subtraction
Young attorney Linda Gilchrist accuses her therapist of molesting her during sessions, and a series of powerful men deny her…
Engraving on English Table Clocks: Art on a Canvas of Brass, 1660-1800
Engraving on English Table Clocks (Holywell) introduces readers to the fascinating and intricate world of table clock engraving. Meant as…
