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Author TitlePub DatePublisherDepartment
Judith WeisenfeldBlack Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's WakeApril 2025NYU PressReligion
Teresa ShawcrossWisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle AgesNovember 2024Palgrave MacmillanHistory and Hellenic Studies
Benjamin Conisbee Baer
and Smaran Dayal, eds.
Spider-Mother: The Politics and Fiction of Rokeya Sakhawat HosseinOctober 2024Warbler PressComparative Literature
Devin ForeSoviet Factography: Reality without RealismSeptember 2024University of Chicago PressGerman
Anne ChengOrdinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model MinoritySeptember 2024PantheonEnglish
Rhae Lynn Barnes
and Glenda Goodman, eds.
American ContactAugust 2024University of Pennsylvania PressHistory
Eliza GriswoldCircle of HopeAugust 2024Farrar, Straus and GirouxJournalism
Aisha Beliso-De JesúsExcited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a DiseaseAugust 2024Duke UPEffron Center for the Study of America
Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg, eds.Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security IssueJuly 2024NYU PressHistory
Jacob S. T. DlaminiDying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South AfricaJuly 2024WileyHistory
Hendrik HartogNobody’s Boy and His PalsJuly 2024University of Chicago PressHistory
Tehseen ThaverBeyond SectarianismJune 2024University of Pennsylvania PressReligion
Nell Irvin PainterI Just Keep Talking: A Life in EssaysApril 2024DoubledayHistory
Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh
Exit InterviewApril 2024no place pressArt & Archaeology
Wolfram Brandes, Helmut Reimitz, and Jack Tannous, eds.
Legal Pluralism and Social Change in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: A Conference in Honor of John HaldonMarch 2024Verlag Vittorio KlostermannHistory, Hellenic Studies
Laurence RalphSito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed HimFebruary 2024Grand Central PublishingAnthropology
Ruha BenjaminImagination: A ManifestoFebruary 2024W. W. Norton & CompanyAfrican American Studies
Iryna VushkoLost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939February 2024Yale UPHistory
David Bellos, Alexandre MontaguWho Owns This Sentence A History of Copyrights and WrongsJanuary 2024W.W. Norton & CompanyFrench and Italian
Thomas ConlanKings in All but NameJanuary 2024Oxford UPEast Asian Studies
Anthony GraftonMagus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to AgrippaDecember 2023Harvard UPHistory
Serguei Alex Oushakine The Formal Method: An Anthology of Russian Modernism. Vol. 4. Functions, or Formalnyi metod: Antologiia russkogo modernizmaDecember 2023Kabinetnyi uchenyi (Armchair Scientist)Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Froma I. ZeitlinThe Retrospective MuseDecember 2023Cornell UPClassics and Comparative Literature
Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the SensesNovember 2023Columbia UPHistory
Jamie L. ReulandMusic and the Making of Medieval VeniceOctober 2023Cambridge UPMusic
Victor BrombertThe Pensive CitadelOctober 2023
University of Chicago Press
French and Italian
Michael A. Blaakman Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American RepublicSeptember 2023Penn PressHistory
Stanley CorngoldAugust 2023Bloomsbury Comparative Literature and German
Janet ChenJuly 2023Columbia UPHistory and East Asian Studies
Anthony T. Grafton, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, and Paolo Sachet, eds.
July 2023Oxford UPHistory
Peter BrownJourneys of the Mind: A Life in History June 2023Princeton UPHistory
Ekaterina PravilovaThe Ruble: A Political HistoryJune 2023Oxford UPHistory
Natasha WheatleyJune 2023Princeton UPHistory
Monica HuertaThe Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial CapitalismJune 2023NYU PressEnglish and American Studies
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Seth Bernard, and Lisa Marie Mignone, eds.
Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCEJune 2023Cambridge UPClassics
Melissa LaneOf Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the PoliticalJune 2023Princeton UPUCHV and Politics
Florian FuchsCivic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of LiteratureMay 2023Zone BooksGerman
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed.; Laura F. Edwards and Jon Sensbach, associate eds.
A New History of the American SouthMay 2023
University of North Carolina Press
History
Harold JamesSeven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped GlobalizationMay 2023Yale UPHistory
Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy Krutz, and Noelani Arista, eds.
The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican WarMay 2023
University of Pennsylvania Press
History
Peter SingerAnimal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic RenewedMay 2023HarperCollinsUCHV
Daphne KalotayThe Archivists: StoriesApril 2023
TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press
Creative Writing
Ryo Morimoto Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray ZoneApril 2023
University of California Press
East Asian Studies and Anthropology
Peter SingerEthics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That MatterApril 2023Princeton UPUCHV
Susan J. WolfsonOn Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of WomanApril 2023Columbia UPEnglish
Karl Kusserow, ed.Object Lessons in American ArtMarch 2023Princeton UPArt Museum
João G. BiehlArc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on EdgeMarch 2023Duke UPAnthropology
Philip PettitThe StateMarch 2023Princeton UPUCHV
Matthew JonesHow Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of AlgorithmsMarch 2023W. W. NortonHistory
Margot CanadayQueer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern AmericaJanuary 2023Princeton UPHistory
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our PastJanuary 2023Basic BooksHistory
Xin WenThe King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk RoadJanuary 2023Princeton UPHistory and East Asian Studies
Divya CherianMerchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South AsiaDecember 2022
University of California Press
History
Anthony T. Grafton and Maren Elisabeth Schwab
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance EuropeNovember 2022Princeton UPHistory
Elizabeth EllisThe Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf SouthNovember 2022Penn PressHistory
Patricia BlessingArchitecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman EmpireNovember 2022Cambridge UPArt and Archaeology
Pedro Meira MonteiroNós somos muitas: ensaios sobre crise, cultura e esperançaOctober 2022RelicárioSpanish and Portuguese
Susan J. WolfsonA Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with CommentariesOctober 2022Harvard UPEnglish
Atul KohliGreed and Guns: Imperial Origins of the Developing WorldOctober 2022Cambridge UPPolitics and International Affairs
Simon MorrisonMirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks October 2022
University of California Press
Music and Slavic Languages and Literature
Marshall Brown and James Glisson, eds.
The Architecture of Collage: Marshall BrownOctober 2022Park BooksArchitecture
Thomas KellyBias: A Philosophical StudyOctober 2022Oxford UPPhilosophy
Susan SugarmanFreud's Interpretation of Dreams: A ReappraisalOctober 2022Cambridge UPHUM and Psychology
Ruha BenjaminViral Justice: How We Grow the World We WantOctober 2022Princeton UPAfrican American Studies
Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams, eds.
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in PandemicOctober 2022Haymarket BooksHistory
Johnny LaforêtHaitian Creole Maintenance In The Greater Chicago AreaSeptember 2022Educa Vision Inc.French and Italian
Marina Brownlee and Kevin Brownlee, eds.
Revealing New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Stephen G. NicholsSeptember 2022Peter Lang
Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
Michael Francis LaffanUnder Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945September 2022Columbia UPHistory
Effie RentzouSeptember 2022Northwestern UPFrench and Italian
Yiyun LiThe Book of GooseSeptember 2022FSGCreative Writing
Aaron LandsmanThe City We Make Together: City Council Meeting’s Primer for ParticipationAugust 2022University of Iowa PressTheater
Javier GuerreroEscribir después de morir: El archivo y el más alláJuly 2022
Ediciones Metales Pesados
Spanish and Portuguese
Marshall Brown and Karen KiceRecurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown ProjectsJune 2022
Princeton Architectural Press
Architecture
Max WeissRevolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist SyriaJune 2022Stanford UPHistory and Near Eastern Studies
Gene A. JarrettPaul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged BirdJune 2022Princeton UPEnglish
Anna Cellinese Voci Italiane: Contemporary Readings for Intermediate to Advanced Students June 2022RoutledgeFrench and Italian
Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister, eds.
Radical PedagogiesMay 2022MIT PressArchitecture
Jhumpa LahiriTranslating Myself and OthersMay 2022Princeton UPCreative Writing
Adam Oberlin and Cecile ZorachEnglish Grammar for Students of German, 7th ed.April 2022Olivia & Hill PressGerman
Susan NaquinGods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000April 2022BrillHistory and East Asian Studies
Autumn WomackThe Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930April 2022
University of Chicago Press
English and African American Studies
Leonard BarkanReading Shakespeare Reading Me April 2022Fordham UPComparative Literature
Julian E. Zelizer, ed.The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical AssessmentApril 2022Princeton UPHistory
Peter Singer, ed.The Golden AssApril 2022W.W. Norton & Co.UCHV
Mark EdwardsChrist Is Time: The Gospel according to Karl Barth (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)April 2022Cascade BooksReligion
Stanley CorngoldThe Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in PrincetonMarch 2022Princeton UPComparative Literature and German
D. Graham Burnett and Stevie KnaussTwelve Theses on AttentionMarch 2022Princeton UPHistory
Brooke Holmes and Nida GhouseComing to KnowMarch 2022Archive BooksClassics
Bridget AlsdorfGawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century FranceMarch 2022Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Thomas ConlanSamurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A SourcebookMarch 2022HackettEAS and History
Esther da Costa MeyerDividing Paris: Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852–1870February 2022Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Stanley CorngoldWeimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler CircleFebruary 2022BloomsburyComparative Literature and German
F. Nick NesbittThe Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the CaribbeanFebruary 2022U of Virginia PressFrench and Italian
Julian E. Zelizer and Paul StarrDefining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and OursFebruary 2022Columbia UPHistory and SPIA
Jerry C. ZeeContinent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather SystemJanuary 2022
University of California Press
Anthropology
Imani PerrySouth To America: A Journey Below The Mason-Dixon To Understand The Soul Of A NationJanuary 2022EccoAfrican American Studies
Stephen F. TeiserRitual and the Study of Buddhism (in Chinese: Yili yu fojiao yanjiu 仪礼与佛教研究)January 2022Sanlian Publishing HouseReligion
Laura F. EdwardsJanuary 2022OUPHistory
Flora ChampyL’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau : exemples et modèlesJanuary 2022Classiques GarnierFrench and Italian
D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, and Justin E.H. Smith, eds.
December 2021MIT PressHistory
Basile BaudezInessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern EuropeDecember 2021Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Dannelle Gutarra CorderoNovember 2021Cambridge UPAfrican American Studies
Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartneyThe Lyrics: 1956 to the PresentNovember 2021W.W. Norton & Co.Creative Writing
Elena FrattoNovember 2021Columbia UPSlavic Languages and Literatures
Jhumpa Lahiri, trans.TrustNovember 2021Europa EditionsCreative Writing
Paul MuldoonHowdie-SkelpNovember 2021Farrar Straus & GirouxCreative Writing
Eduardo CadavaPaper GraveyardsOctober 2021MIT PressEnglish and Comparative Literature
Leonard BarkanThe Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the RenaissanceOctober 2021Princeton UPComparative Literature
Susan WolfsonOn He Flared: Essays on Four Letters of John KeatsOctober 2021Keats Shelley HouseEnglish
Julian E. ZelizerAbraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical AmazementOctober 2021Yale University PressHistory
Chika Okeke-AguluAfrican Artists from 1882 to NowOctober 2021Phaidon
Art and Archaeology; African American Studies
Keith WailooPushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol CigaretteOctober 2021
University of Chicago Press
History and Public Affairs
Allen C. GuelzoRobert E. Lee: A LifeSeptember 2021Knopf
James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
Christina H. LeeSaints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish RuleSeptember 2021Oxford UPSpanish and Portuguese
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 PiecesSeptember 2021Princeton UPMusic
Nathan T. ArringtonAthens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean WorldSeptember 2021Princeton UPClassics
Harold JamesThe War of Words: A Glossary of GlobalizationSeptember 2021Yale UPHistory
Monica HuertaMagical HabitsAugust 2021Duke UPEnglish and American Studies
Joyce Carol OatesBreatheAugust 2021HarperCollinsCreative Writing
Andreas WiedemannIndebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich DemocraciesJuly 2021Cambridge UPPolitics and International Affairs
Denis Feeney and Joel B. LandeHow Literatures Begin: A Global HistoryJuly 2021Princeton UPClassics and German
David Bellos, trans.How To Deal with Idiots (and stop being one yourself)July 2021Profile Books
French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Corinna ZeltsmanInk Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJune 2021
University of California Press
History
Andrew FeldherrAfter the Past: Sallust on History and Writing HistoryJune 2021John Wiley & SonsClassics
Atsuko UedaLanguage, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)June 2021
University of California Press
EAS
Serguei A. Oushakine and Marina Balina, eds.
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for ChildrenJune 2021U of Toronto Press
Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Denis FeeneyExplorations in Latin Literature, vols. I & IIJune 2021CUPClassics
Harriet I. FlowerEmpire and Religion in the Roman WorldJune 2021CUPClassics
Erin Besler and Ian BeslerJune 2021
Applied Research & Design/ORO
Architecture
Jan-Werner MullerDemocracy RulesJune 2021Farrar Straus and GirouxPolitics and UCHV
Joshua BillingsThe Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical AthensJune 2021Princeton UPClassics
Sara S. PoorGender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German LiteratureMay 2021De GruyterGerman
Anna Arabindan-KessonBlack Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic WorldMay 2021Duke UP
Art and Archaeology; African American Studies
Spyros PapapetrosPre-ArchitectureMay 2021MITArchitecture
Michael GordinOn the Fringe: Where Science Meets PseudoscienceApril 2021OUPHistory
Jhumpa LahiriWhereaboutsApril 2021KnopfCreative Writing
Kirstin Valdez QuadeThe Five WoundsApril 2021NortonCreative Writing
Patricia Fortini BrownThe Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its EmpireMarch 2021OUPArt & Archaeology
Claudia BrodskyThe Linguistic Condition: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of ActionMarch 2021BloomsburyComparative Literature
Linda ColleyThe Gun, the Ship, and the PenMarch 2021W.W. Norton & Co.History
Peter WirzbickiFighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against SlaveryMarch 2021U Penn PressHistory
David Bellos, trans.Anti-Semitism Revisited. How the Rabbis Made Sense of HateFebruary 2021MacLehose Press
French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Nehassaiu deGannesMusic for ExileFebruary 2021Tupelo PressTheater
Joyce Carol OatesAmerican Melancholy: PoemsFebruary 2021HarperCollinsCreative Writing
Joyce Carol OatesThe (Other) You: Short StoriesFebruary 2021HarperCollinsCreative Writing
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ed.January 2021Getty Research InstituteArt and Archaeology
Karl Kusserow, ed.Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary PerspectiveJanuary 2021Yale UPArt Museum
Ksenia ChizhovaJanuary 2021Columbia UPComparative Literature and EAS
Barbara Graziosi and Alessandro Barchiesi
Ritorni difficiliJanuary 2021
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Classics
Serguei A. Oushakine January 2021Garage
Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Stephen F. Teiser, trans.Dunhuang Manuscripts: An Introduction to Texts from the Silk RoadDecember 2020Portico Publishing Co.Religion
Nicole D. LegnaniThe Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic WorldDecember 2020U of Notre Dame PressSpanish and Portuguese
Gaetana MarroneThe Cinema of Francesco RosiDecember 2020OUPFrench and Italian
Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek, eds
December 2020CUPClassics
Serguei Alex. Oushakine and Marina Balina, eds.
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for ChildrenDecember 2020U of Toronto PressAnthropology
Philip NordAfter the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar FranceNovember 2020Cambridge UPHistory
Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi, trans.My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi LeiNovember 2020Graywolf PressCreative Writing
Roberto Abbiati and Simone MarchesiA Proposito di Dante: Cento note illustrate alla CommediaNovember 2020Keller EditoreFrench and Italian
Daniela Mairhofer and Agata MazurekDer Oxforder Boethius. Studie und lateinisch-deutsche EditionNovember 2020Erich Schmidt VerlagClassics
Hal FosterBrutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, OldenburgNovember 2020Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Yelena BarazReading Roman PrideOctober 2020OUPClassics
Joyce Carol OatesCardiff, by the Sea: Four NovellasOctober 2020Mysterious PressCreative Writing
Peter SingerWhy Vegan?: Eating EthicallyOctober 2020WW NortonUCHV
James WellingChoreographSeptember 2020AperatureVisual Arts
Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor
Piranesi UnboundSeptember 2020Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Sylvia LavinArchitecture itself and Other Postmodernization EffectsSeptember 2020Spector BooksArchitecture
Claudia BrodskyWords' Worth: What the Poet DoesSeptember 2020BloomsburyComparative Literature
Stanley T. AllenSituated Objects: Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen2020Park BooksArchitecture
Dan-el Padilla PeraltaDivine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman RepublicSeptember 2020PUPClassics
1913: The Year of French ModernismAugust 2020Manchester UPFrench and Italian
Claudia Johnson and Clara Tuite30 Great Myths about Jane AustenJuly 2020Wiley-BlackwellEnglish
David A. BellMen on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of RevolutionJuly 2020Farrar, Straus and GirouxHistory
Julian E. ZelizerJuly 2020Penguin Random HouseHistory
Sheila KohlerOpen SecretsJuly 2020Penguin BooksCreative Writing
Yiyun LiMust I GoJuly 2020Random HouseCreative Writing
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, 1963-1972June 2020CrownAAS and Religion
Anthony T. GraftonInky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern EuropeJune 2020Harvard UPHistory
Carolina MangoneBernini’s MichelangeloJune 2020Yale UPArt and Archaeology
AnneMarie Luijendijk, co-edited with Laura Nasrallah and Charalambos Bakirtzis
From Roman to Early Christian CyprusJune 2020Mohr Siebrek EkReligion
Christy WampoleDegenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century FranceJune 2020Columbia UPFrench and Italian
András Bárány and Laura Kalin, eds.June 2020De GruyterLinguistics
James RichardsonFor NowJune 2020Copper Canyon PressCreative Writing
Joyce Carol OatesNight. Sleep. Death. The Stars.June 2020HarperCollinsCreative Writing
Lee Clark MitchellMark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern LiteratureMay 2020BloomsburyEnglish
Theodore ZiolkowskiRoman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War IMay 2020Boydell & BrewerComparative Literature
Jacob S. DlaminiThe Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security PoliceMay 2020Harvard UPHistory
Robert WuthnowWhat Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday LifeMay 2020Princeton UPSociology
Hal FosterWhat Comes After Farce?April 2020VersoArt and Archaeology
Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh, eds.
Life Magazine and the Power of PhotographyApril 2020Yale UPArt Museum
Lauren Coyle RosenFires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in GhanaApril 2020
University of California Press
Anthropology
He BianKnow Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern ChinaApril 2020Princeton UPHistory and EAS
Lara HarbArabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic LiteratureApril 2020Cambridge UPNES
D. Vance SmithArts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval EnglandApril 2020
University of Chicago Press
English
Jacob S. DlaminiSafari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National ParkApril 2020Ohio UPHistory
Sean WilentzApril 2020Penguin Random HouseHistory
Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón, eds.
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary SourcesApril 2020
Amsterdam University Press
Spanish and Portuguese
Susanna MooreMiss AluminumApril 2020Farrar Straus & GirouxCreative Writing
Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh, trans.
Lean Against This Late HourApril 2020Penguin PoetsCreative Writing
Robert FreidinAdventures in English SyntaxFebruary 2020Cambridge UPLinguistics
Rubén Gallo, ed.February 2020Editorial HypermediaSpanish and Portuguese
Michael GordinEinstein in BohemiaFebruary 2020Princeton UPHistory
M’hamed OualdiA Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North AfricaFebruary 2020Columbia UPNES
Erin Y. HuangUrban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of VisibilityFebruary 2020Duke UPEAS
Rowan Ricardo PhillipsLiving WeaponFebruary 2020Farrar Straus & GirouxCreative Writing
William Chester JordanServant of the Crown and Steward of the Church: The Career of Philippe of CahorsJanuary 2020U of Toronto PressHistory
The Age of HiroshimaJanuary 2020Princeton UPHistory
Marina RustowThe Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo SynagogueJanuary 2020Princeton UPNES
Atul KohliJanuary 2020Oxford UPPolitics and International Affairs
Laurence RalphTorture Letters: Reckoning with Police ViolenceJanuary 2020
University of Chicago Press
Anthropology
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Abel Barros Baptista, Clara Rowland, eds.
Esse Aires [That Aires, on Machado de Assis]January 2020E-galáxiaSpanish and Portuguese
Hanna GarthFood in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent MealJanuary 2020Stanford UPAnthropology
Michael KoortbojianJanuary 2020Princeton UPArt and Archaeology
Susan StewartThe Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western CultureJanuary 2020
University of Chicago Press
English
Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective CriticismJanuary 2020Columbia UPEnglish
Peter SingerThe Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty, anniversary editionDecember 2019thelifeyoucansave.orgUCHV
Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz, eds.
December 2019Oxford UPClassics
Stacy WolfBeyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across AmericaDecember 2019Oxford UPTheater
Stanley CorngoldWalter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, HereticDecember 2019Princeton UPGerman
Rowan Ricardo PhillipsThe Circuit: A Tennis OdysseyDecember 2019Farrar Straus & GirouxCreative Writing
Barbara NagelNovember 2019BloomsburyGerman
Katie ChenowethThe Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French LanguageNovember 2019U of Pennsylvania PressFrench and Italian
Paul MuldoonFrolic and DetourNovember 2019Farrar Straus & GirouxCreative Writing
Idra NoveyThose Who KnewNovember 2019Viking/Random HouseCreative Writing
Olga Peters HastyHow Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman PoetOctober 2019Northwestern UPSlavic
Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorRace for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipOctober 2019U of North Carolina PressAfrican American Studies
Gayle Salamon, Ann V. Murphy, Gail Weiss, eds.
50 Concepts for a Critical PhenomenologyOctober 2019Northwestern UPEnglish and GSS
Anna StilzTerritorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical ExplorationOctober 2019OUPPolitics and UCHV
Rubén GalloProust LatinoOctober 2019Buchet ChastelSpanish and Portuguese
Jan-Werner MullerFurcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen LiberalismusOctober 2019Suhrkamp Verlag AGPolitics
Joyce Carol Oates PursuitOctober 2019Mysterious PressCreative Writing
Philip Nord, Katya Guenther, M Weiss, eds.
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the SecularSeptember 2019Princeton UPNES
Imani PerryBreathe: A Letter to my SonsSeptember 2019Beacon PressAfrican American Studies
Augustín FuentesWhy We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of BeingSeptember 2019Yale UPAnthropology
Jhumpa Lahiri, ed.The Penguin Book of Italian Short StoriesSeptember 2019Penguin Random HouseCreative Writing
Jonathan S. Gold, Douglas S. Duckworth, eds.
Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvtāra)August 2019Columbia UPReligion
Marina Brownlee, ed.Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of RomanceAugust 2019U of Toronto PressSpanish and Portuguese
Yaacob DweckDissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob SasportasAugust 2019Princeton UPHistory
Hans HalvorsonThe Logic in Philosophy of ScienceAugust 2019U of Notre Dame PressPhilosophy
Harry FrankfurtThe Reasons of LoveJuly 2019Princeton UPPhilosophy
Beatrice Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, eds.
After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10th-11th CenturiesJuly 2019De GruyterArt and Archaeology
Ruha BenjaminRace after TechnologyJuly 2019PolityAfrican American Studies
Paul FrymerBuilding an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political ExpansionJuly 2019Princeton UPPolitics
Daphne KalotayBlue HoursJuly 2019TriQuarterly BooksCreative Writing
Michael Wachtel, Lazar Fleishman and Stefan Newerkla, eds.
June 2019Peter LangSlavic
Wendy BelcherWriting Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, 2eJune 2019U of Chicago PressComparative Literature and AAS
Lee Clark MitchellMore Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late StyleJune 2019Oxford UPEnglish
Ruha BenjaminJune 2019Duke UPAfrican American Studies
Aleksandar HemonMy Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to YouJune 2019Penguin Random HouseCreative Writing
Barbara GraziosiHomer: A Very Short IntroductionMay 2019OUPClassics
Andrew Chignell, ed.Evil: A HistoryMay 2019Oxford UPReligion
Tod HamiltonImmigration and the Remaking of Black AmericaMay 2019Russell SageSociology
Carles BoixDemocratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of PoliticsMay 2019Princeton UPPolitics and Public Affairs
Michael Wachtel and Philip Gleissner, eds.
Vjačeslav Ivanov und seine deutschsprachigen Verleger: Eine Chronik in BriefenMay 2019Peter LangSlavic
Jesse Reiser, Nanako UmemotoProjects and Their Consequences: Reiser+UmemotoMay 2019
Princeton Architectural Press
Architecture
Germán Labrador Méndez and María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, eds.
A critical edition of Rosalía de Castro. El primer loco [The first inmate]April 2019Consorcio de SantiagoSpanish and Portuguese
William Chester JordanThe Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IXApril 2019Princeton UPHistory
Frederick WherryCredit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial CitizenshipApril 2019Russell SageSociology
Johannes Haubold, John Steele, Kathryn Stevens, eds.
Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in ContextApril 2019BrillClassics
Franz PrichardApril 2019Columbia UPEAS
Beatriz ColminaX-Ray ArchitectureApril 2019Lars MuellerArchitecture
Beatrice KitzingerThe Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian AgeMarch 2019Cambridge UPArt and Archaeology
Gyan PrakashEmergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning PointMarch 2019Princeton UPHistory
Ben Conisbee BaerIndigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of ModernismMarch 2019Columbia UPComparative Literature
Michael OppenheimerDiscerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental PolicyMarch 2019U of Chicago PressGeosciences and International Affairs
Michael DickmanDays & DaysMarch 2019KnopfCreative Writing
Tera W. HunterBound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth CenturyFebruary 2019Harvard UPHistory
Yiyun LiWhere Reasons End: A NovelFebruary 2019Penguin Random HouseCreative Writing
Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. ZelizerFault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974January 2019WW NortonHistory
Anne ChengOrnamentalismJanuary 2019Oxford UPEnglish and American Studies
Fintan O’TooleHeroic Failure: Brexit And The Politics Of PainJanuary 2019Head of ZeusLewis Center
Erika MilamCreatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War AmericaJanuary 2019Princeton UPHistory of Science
Martha FriedmanMartha Friedman: Castoffs2019Henry Art GalleryVisual Arts
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