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Author	Title	Pub Date	Publisher	Department
Judith Weisenfeld	Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake	April 2025	NYU Press	Religion
Hal Foster	Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics	February 2025	MIT Press	Art & Archaeology
Teresa Shawcross	Wisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages	November 2024	Palgrave Macmillan	History and Hellenic Studies
Rhodri Lewis	Shakespeare’s Tragic Art	October 2024	Princeton UP	English
Benjamin Conisbee Baer and Smaran Dayal, eds.	Spider-Mother: The Politics and Fiction of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein	October 2024	Warbler Press	Comparative Literature
Devin Fore	Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism	September 2024	University of Chicago Press	German
Anne Cheng	Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority	September 2024	Pantheon	English
Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman, eds.	American Contact	August 2024	University of Pennsylvania Press	History
Eliza Griswold	Circle of Hope	August 2024	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Journalism
Simon Morrison	Tchaikovsky's Empire	August 2024	Yale UP	Music; Canadian Studies
Aisha Beliso-De Jesús	Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease	August 2024	Duke UP	Effron Center for the Study of America
Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg, eds.	Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue	July 2024	NYU Press	History
Jacob S. T. Dlamini	Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa	July 2024	Wiley	History
Jonathan Gribetz	Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy	July 2024	Princeton UP	Near Eastern Studies
Hendrik Hartog	Nobody’s Boy and His Pals	July 2024	University of Chicago Press	History
Tehseen Thaver	Beyond Sectarianism	June 2024	University of Pennsylvania Press	Religion
Nell Irvin Painter	I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays	April 2024	Doubleday	History
Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh	Exit Interview	April 2024	no place press	Art & 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 Haldon	March 2024	Verlag Vittorio Klostermann	History, Hellenic Studies
Laurence Ralph	Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him	February 2024	Grand Central Publishing	Anthropology
Ruha Benjamin	Imagination: A Manifesto	February 2024	W. W. Norton & Company	African American Studies
Iryna Vushko	Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939	February 2024	Yale UP	History
David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu	Who Owns This Sentence A History of Copyrights and Wrongs	January 2024	W.W. Norton & Company	French and Italian
Thomas Conlan	Kings in All but Name	January 2024	Oxford UP	East Asian Studies
Anthony Grafton	Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa	December 2023	Harvard UP	History
Serguei Alex Oushakine	The Formal Method: An Anthology of Russian Modernism. Vol. 4. Functions, or Formalnyi metod: Antologiia russkogo modernizma	December 2023	Kabinetnyi uchenyi (Armchair Scientist)	Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Froma I. Zeitlin	The Retrospective Muse	December 2023	Cornell UP	Classics and Comparative Literature
D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith, eds.	Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses	November 2023	Columbia UP	History
Jamie L. Reuland	Music and the Making of Medieval Venice	October 2023	Cambridge UP	Music
Victor Brombert	The Pensive Citadel	October 2023	University of Chicago Press	French and Italian
Michael A. Blaakman	Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic	September 2023	Penn Press	History
Stanley Corngold	Expeditions to Kafka: Selected Essays	August 2023	Bloomsbury	Comparative Literature and German
Janet Chen	The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960	July 2023	Columbia UP	History and East Asian Studies
Anthony T. Grafton, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, and Paolo Sachet, eds.	Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)	July 2023	Oxford UP	History
Peter Brown	Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History	June 2023	Princeton UP	History
Ekaterina Pravilova	The Ruble: A Political History	June 2023	Oxford UP	History
Natasha Wheatley	The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty	June 2023	Princeton UP	History
Monica Huerta	The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism	June 2023	NYU Press	English 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 BCE	June 2023	Cambridge UP	Classics
Melissa Lane	Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political	June 2023	Princeton UP	UCHV and Politics
Florian Fuchs	Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature	May 2023	Zone Books	German
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed.; Laura F. Edwards and Jon Sensbach, associate eds.	A New History of the American South	May 2023	University of North Carolina Press	History
Harold James	Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization	May 2023	Yale UP	History
Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy Krutz, and Noelani Arista, eds.	The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War	May 2023	University of Pennsylvania Press	History
Peter Singer	Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed	May 2023	HarperCollins	UCHV
Daphne Kalotay	The Archivists: Stories	April 2023	TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press	Creative Writing
Ryo Morimoto	Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone	April 2023	University of California Press	East Asian Studies and Anthropology
Peter Singer	Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter	April 2023	Princeton UP	UCHV
Susan J. Wolfson	On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	April 2023	Columbia UP	English
Karl Kusserow, ed.	Object Lessons in American Art	March 2023	Princeton UP	Art Museum
João G. Biehl	Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge	March 2023	Duke UP	Anthropology
Philip Pettit	The State	March 2023	Princeton UP	UCHV
Matthew Jones	How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms	March 2023	W. W. Norton	History
Margot Canaday	Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America	January 2023	Princeton UP	History
Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, eds.	Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past	January 2023	Basic Books	History
Xin Wen	The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road	January 2023	Princeton UP	History and East Asian Studies
Divya Cherian	Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia	December 2022	University of California Press	History
Anthony T. Grafton and Maren Elisabeth Schwab	The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe	November 2022	Princeton UP	History
Elizabeth Ellis	The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South	November 2022	Penn Press	History
Patricia Blessing	Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire	November 2022	Cambridge UP	Art and Archaeology
Pedro Meira Monteiro	Nós somos muitas: ensaios sobre crise, cultura e esperança	October 2022	Relicário	Spanish and Portuguese
Susan J. Wolfson	A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries	October 2022	Harvard UP	English
Atul Kohli	Greed and Guns: Imperial Origins of the Developing World	October 2022	Cambridge UP	Politics and International Affairs
Simon Morrison	Mirror 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 Brown	October 2022	Park Books	Architecture
Thomas Kelly	Bias: A Philosophical Study	October 2022	Oxford UP	Philosophy
Susan Sugarman	Freud's Interpretation of Dreams: A Reappraisal	October 2022	Cambridge UP	HUM and Psychology
Ruha Benjamin	Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want	October 2022	Princeton UP	African American Studies
Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams, eds.	After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic	October 2022	Haymarket Books	History
Johnny Laforêt	Haitian Creole Maintenance In The Greater Chicago Area	September 2022	Educa Vision Inc.	French and Italian
Marina Brownlee and Kevin Brownlee, eds.	Revealing New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Stephen G. Nichols	September 2022	Peter Lang	Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
Michael Francis Laffan	Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945	September 2022	Columbia UP	History
Effie Rentzou	Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910–1940	September 2022	Northwestern UP	French and Italian
Yiyun Li	The Book of Goose	September 2022	FSG	Creative Writing
Aaron Landsman	The City We Make Together: City Council Meeting’s Primer for Participation	August 2022	University of Iowa Press	Theater
Javier Guerrero	Escribir después de morir: El archivo y el más allá	July 2022	Ediciones Metales Pesados	Spanish and Portuguese
Marshall Brown and Karen Kice	Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects	June 2022	Princeton Architectural Press	Architecture
Max Weiss	Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria	June 2022	Stanford UP	History and Near Eastern Studies
Gene A. Jarrett	Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird	June 2022	Princeton UP	English
Anna Cellinese	Voci Italiane: Contemporary Readings for Intermediate to Advanced Students	June 2022	Routledge	French and Italian
Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister, eds.	Radical Pedagogies	May 2022	MIT Press	Architecture
Jhumpa Lahiri	Translating Myself and Others	May 2022	Princeton UP	Creative Writing
Adam Oberlin and Cecile Zorach	English Grammar for Students of German, 7th ed.	April 2022	Olivia & Hill Press	German
Susan Naquin	Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000	April 2022	Brill	History and East Asian Studies
Autumn Womack	The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930	April 2022	University of Chicago Press	English and African American Studies
Leonard Barkan	Reading Shakespeare Reading Me	April 2022	Fordham UP	Comparative Literature
Julian E. Zelizer, ed.	The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment	April 2022	Princeton UP	History
Peter Singer, ed.	The Golden Ass	April 2022	W.W. Norton & Co.	UCHV
Mark Edwards	Christ Is Time: The Gospel according to Karl Barth (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)	April 2022	Cascade Books	Religion
Stanley Corngold	The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton	March 2022	Princeton UP	Comparative Literature and German
D. Graham Burnett and Stevie Knauss	Twelve Theses on Attention	March 2022	Princeton UP	History
Brooke Holmes and Nida Ghouse	Coming to Know	March 2022	Archive Books	Classics
Bridget Alsdorf	Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France	March 2022	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Thomas Conlan	Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook	March 2022	Hackett	EAS and History
Esther da Costa Meyer	Dividing Paris: Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852–1870	February 2022	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Stanley Corngold	Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle	February 2022	Bloomsbury	Comparative Literature and German
F. Nick Nesbitt	The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean	February 2022	U of Virginia Press	French and Italian
Julian E. Zelizer and Paul Starr	Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours	February 2022	Columbia UP	History and SPIA
Jerry C. Zee	Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System	January 2022	University of California Press	Anthropology
Imani Perry	South To America: A Journey Below The Mason-Dixon To Understand The Soul Of A Nation	January 2022	Ecco	African American Studies
Stephen F. Teiser	Ritual and the Study of Buddhism (in Chinese: Yili yu fojiao yanjiu 仪礼与佛教研究)	January 2022	Sanlian Publishing House	Religion
Laura F. Edwards	Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States	January 2022	OUP	History
Flora Champy	L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau : exemples et modèles	January 2022	Classiques Garnier	French and Italian
D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, and Justin E.H. Smith, eds.	In Search of The Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2021	December 2021	MIT Press	History
Basile Baudez	Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe	December 2021	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero	She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World	November 2021	Cambridge UP	African American Studies
Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartney	The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present	November 2021	W.W. Norton & Co.	Creative Writing
Elena Fratto	Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	November 2021	Columbia UP	Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jhumpa Lahiri, trans.	Trust	November 2021	Europa Editions	Creative Writing
Paul Muldoon	Howdie-Skelp	November 2021	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Creative Writing
Eduardo Cadava	Paper Graveyards	October 2021	MIT Press	English and Comparative Literature
Leonard Barkan	The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance	October 2021	Princeton UP	Comparative Literature
Susan Wolfson	On He Flared: Essays on Four Letters of John Keats	October 2021	Keats Shelley House	English
Julian E. Zelizer	Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement	October 2021	Yale University Press	History
Chika Okeke-Agulu	African Artists from 1882 to Now	October 2021	Phaidon	Art and Archaeology; African American Studies
Keith Wailoo	Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette	October 2021	University of Chicago Press	History and Public Affairs
Allen C. Guelzo	Robert E. Lee: A Life	September 2021	Knopf	James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
Christina H. Lee	Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule	September 2021	Oxford UP	Spanish and Portuguese
Scott Burnham, Marna Seltzer, and Dorothea von Moltke, eds.	Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces	September 2021	Princeton UP	Music
Nathan T. Arrington	Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World	September 2021	Princeton UP	Classics
Harold James	The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization	September 2021	Yale UP	History
Monica Huerta	Magical Habits	August 2021	Duke UP	English and American Studies
Joyce Carol Oates	Breathe	August 2021	HarperCollins	Creative Writing
Andreas Wiedemann	Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies	July 2021	Cambridge UP	Politics and International Affairs
Denis Feeney and Joel B. Lande	How Literatures Begin: A Global History	July 2021	Princeton UP	Classics and German
David Bellos, trans.	How To Deal with Idiots (and stop being one yourself)	July 2021	Profile Books	French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Corinna Zeltsman	Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico	June 2021	University of California Press	History
Andrew Feldherr	After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History	June 2021	John Wiley & Sons	Classics
Atsuko Ueda	Language, 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 Children	June 2021	U of Toronto Press	Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Denis Feeney	Explorations in Latin Literature, vols. I & II	June 2021	CUP	Classics
Harriet I. Flower	Empire and Religion in the Roman World	June 2021	CUP	Classics
Erin Besler and Ian Besler	Best Practices: A companion to architecture and its messy relationship with building materials, signage systems, communication equipment, plant life, and people	June 2021	Applied Research & Design/ORO	Architecture
Jan-Werner Muller	Democracy Rules	June 2021	Farrar Straus and Giroux	Politics and UCHV
Joshua Billings	The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens	June 2021	Princeton UP	Classics
Sara S. Poor	Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature	May 2021	De Gruyter	German
Anna Arabindan-Kesson	Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World	May 2021	Duke UP	Art and Archaeology; African American Studies
Spyros Papapetros	Pre-Architecture	May 2021	MIT	Architecture
Michael Gordin	On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience	April 2021	OUP	History
Jhumpa Lahiri	Whereabouts	April 2021	Knopf	Creative Writing
Kirstin Valdez Quade	The Five Wounds	April 2021	Norton	Creative Writing
Patricia Fortini Brown	The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire	March 2021	OUP	Art & Archaeology
Claudia Brodsky	The Linguistic Condition: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of Action	March 2021	Bloomsbury	Comparative Literature
Linda Colley	The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen	March 2021	W.W. Norton & Co.	History
Peter Wirzbicki	Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery	March 2021	U Penn Press	History
David Bellos, trans.	Anti-Semitism Revisited. How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hate	February 2021	MacLehose Press	French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Nehassaiu deGannes	Music for Exile	February 2021	Tupelo Press	Theater
Joyce Carol Oates	American Melancholy: Poems	February 2021	HarperCollins	Creative Writing
Joyce Carol Oates	The (Other) You: Short Stories	February 2021	HarperCollins	Creative Writing
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ed.	Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting	January 2021	Getty Research Institute	Art and Archaeology
Karl Kusserow, ed.	Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective	January 2021	Yale UP	Art Museum
Ksenia Chizhova	Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday	January 2021	Columbia UP	Comparative Literature and EAS
Barbara Graziosi and Alessandro Barchiesi	Ritorni difficili	January 2021	Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura	Classics
Serguei A. Oushakine	А Medium for the Masses: Photomontage and the Optical Turn in Early Soviet Russia by Serguei Oushakine	January 2021	Garage	Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Stephen F. Teiser, trans.	Dunhuang Manuscripts: An Introduction to Texts from the Silk Road	December 2020	Portico Publishing Co.	Religion
Nicole D. Legnani	The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World	December 2020	U of Notre Dame Press	Spanish and Portuguese
Gaetana Marrone	The Cinema of Francesco Rosi	December 2020	OUP	French and Italian
Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek, eds	Benefactors and the Polis. The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity	December 2020	CUP	Classics
Serguei Alex. Oushakine and Marina Balina, eds.	The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children	December 2020	U of Toronto Press	Anthropology
Philip Nord	After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France	November 2020	Cambridge UP	History
Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi, trans.	My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei	November 2020	Graywolf Press	Creative Writing
Roberto Abbiati and Simone Marchesi	A Proposito di Dante: Cento note illustrate alla Commedia	November 2020	Keller Editore	French and Italian
Daniela Mairhofer and Agata Mazurek	Der Oxforder Boethius. Studie und lateinisch-deutsche Edition	November 2020	Erich Schmidt Verlag	Classics
Hal Foster	Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg	November 2020	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Yelena Baraz	Reading Roman Pride	October 2020	OUP	Classics
Joyce Carol Oates	Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas	October 2020	Mysterious Press	Creative Writing
Peter Singer	Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically	October 2020	WW Norton	UCHV
James Welling	Choreograph	September 2020	Aperature	Visual Arts
Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor	Piranesi Unbound	September 2020	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Sylvia Lavin	Architecture itself and Other Postmodernization Effects	September 2020	Spector Books	Architecture
Claudia Brodsky	Words' Worth: What the Poet Does	September 2020	Bloomsbury	Comparative Literature
Stanley T. Allen	Situated Objects: Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen	2020	Park Books	Architecture
Dan-el Padilla Peralta	Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic	September 2020	PUP	Classics
Effie Rentzou and André Benhaïm, eds.	1913: The Year of French Modernism	August 2020	Manchester UP	French and Italian
Claudia Johnson and Clara Tuite	30 Great Myths about Jane Austen	July 2020	Wiley-Blackwell	English
David A. Bell	Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution	July 2020	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	History
Julian E. Zelizer	Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party	July 2020	Penguin Random House	History
Sheila Kohler	Open Secrets	July 2020	Penguin Books	Creative Writing
Yiyun Li	Must I Go	July 2020	Random House	Creative Writing
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.	Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, 1963-1972	June 2020	Crown	AAS and Religion
Anthony T. Grafton	Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe	June 2020	Harvard UP	History
Carolina Mangone	Bernini’s Michelangelo	June 2020	Yale UP	Art and Archaeology
AnneMarie Luijendijk, co-edited with Laura Nasrallah and Charalambos Bakirtzis	From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus	June 2020	Mohr Siebrek Ek	Religion
Christy Wampole	Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France	June 2020	Columbia UP	French and Italian
András Bárány and Laura Kalin, eds.	Case, Agreement, and their Interactions: New Perspectives on Differential Argument Marking	June 2020	De Gruyter	Linguistics
James Richardson	For Now	June 2020	Copper Canyon Press	Creative Writing
Joyce Carol Oates	Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.	June 2020	HarperCollins	Creative Writing
Lee Clark Mitchell	Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature	May 2020	Bloomsbury	English
Theodore Ziolkowski	Roman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I	May 2020	Boydell & Brewer	Comparative Literature
Jacob S. Dlamini	The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police	May 2020	Harvard UP	History
Robert Wuthnow	What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life	May 2020	Princeton UP	Sociology
Hal Foster	What Comes After Farce?	April 2020	Verso	Art and Archaeology
Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh, eds.	Life Magazine and the Power of Photography	April 2020	Yale UP	Art Museum
Lauren Coyle Rosen	Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana	April 2020	University of California Press	Anthropology
He Bian	Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China	April 2020	Princeton UP	History and EAS
Lara Harb	Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature	April 2020	Cambridge UP	NES
D. Vance Smith	Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England	April 2020	University of Chicago Press	English
Jacob S. Dlamini	Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park	April 2020	Ohio UP	History
Sean Wilentz	Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays, 1956-1965	April 2020	Penguin Random House	History
Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón, eds.	The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources	April 2020	Amsterdam University Press	Spanish and Portuguese
Susanna Moore	Miss Aluminum	April 2020	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Creative Writing
Idra Novey and Ahmad Nadalizadeh, trans.	Lean Against This Late Hour	April 2020	Penguin Poets	Creative Writing
Robert Freidin	Adventures in English Syntax	February 2020	Cambridge UP	Linguistics
Rubén Gallo, ed.	Crónicas de una pequeña ciudad mexicana en La Habana [Chronicles of a small Mexican city in Havana]	February 2020	Editorial Hypermedia	Spanish and Portuguese
Michael Gordin	Einstein in Bohemia	February 2020	Princeton UP	History
M’hamed Oualdi	A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa	February 2020	Columbia UP	NES
Erin Y. Huang	Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility	February 2020	Duke UP	EAS
Rowan Ricardo Phillips	Living Weapon	February 2020	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Creative Writing
William Chester Jordan	Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church: The Career of Philippe of Cahors	January 2020	U of Toronto Press	History
Michael Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, eds.	The Age of Hiroshima	January 2020	Princeton UP	History
Marina Rustow	The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue	January 2020	Princeton UP	NES
Atul Kohli	Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery	January 2020	Oxford UP	Politics and International Affairs
Laurence Ralph	Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence	January 2020	University of Chicago Press	Anthropology
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Abel Barros Baptista, Clara Rowland, eds.	Esse Aires [That Aires, on Machado de Assis]	January 2020	E-galáxia	Spanish and Portuguese
Hanna Garth	Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal	January 2020	Stanford UP	Anthropology
Michael Koortbojian	Crossing the Pomerium. The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine	January 2020	Princeton UP	Art and Archaeology
Susan Stewart	The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture	January 2020	University of Chicago Press	English
Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards	The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism	January 2020	Columbia UP	English
Peter Singer	The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty, anniversary edition	December 2019	thelifeyoucansave.org	UCHV
Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz, eds.	Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World’s Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek	December 2019	Oxford UP	Classics
Stacy Wolf	Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America	December 2019	Oxford UP	Theater
Stanley Corngold	Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic	December 2019	Princeton UP	German
Rowan Ricardo Phillips	The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey	December 2019	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Creative Writing
Barbara Nagel	Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence	November 2019	Bloomsbury	German
Katie Chenoweth	The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language	November 2019	U of Pennsylvania Press	French and Italian
Paul Muldoon	Frolic and Detour	November 2019	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Creative Writing
Idra Novey	Those Who Knew	November 2019	Viking/Random House	Creative Writing
Olga Peters Hasty	How Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman Poet	October 2019	Northwestern UP	Slavic
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor	Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership	October 2019	U of North Carolina Press	African American Studies
Gayle Salamon, Ann V. Murphy, Gail Weiss, eds.	50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology	October 2019	Northwestern UP	English and GSS
Anna Stilz	Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration	October 2019	OUP	Politics and UCHV
Rubén Gallo	Proust Latino	October 2019	Buchet Chastel	Spanish and Portuguese
Jan-Werner Muller	Furcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen Liberalismus	October 2019	Suhrkamp Verlag AG	Politics
Joyce Carol Oates	Pursuit	October 2019	Mysterious Press	Creative Writing
Philip Nord, Katya Guenther, M Weiss, eds.	Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular	September 2019	Princeton UP	NES
Imani Perry	Breathe: A Letter to my Sons	September 2019	Beacon Press	African American Studies
Augustín Fuentes	Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being	September 2019	Yale UP	Anthropology
Jhumpa Lahiri, ed.	The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories	September 2019	Penguin Random House	Creative Writing
Jonathan S. Gold, Douglas S. Duckworth, eds.	Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvtāra)	August 2019	Columbia UP	Religion
Marina Brownlee, ed.	Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance	August 2019	U of Toronto Press	Spanish and Portuguese
Yaacob Dweck	Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas	August 2019	Princeton UP	History
Hans Halvorson	The Logic in Philosophy of Science	August 2019	U of Notre Dame Press	Philosophy
Harry Frankfurt	The Reasons of Love	July 2019	Princeton UP	Philosophy
Beatrice Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, eds.	After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10th-11th Centuries	July 2019	De Gruyter	Art and Archaeology
Ruha Benjamin	Race after Technology	July 2019	Polity	African American Studies
Paul Frymer	Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion	July 2019	Princeton UP	Politics
Daphne Kalotay	Blue Hours	July 2019	TriQuarterly Books	Creative Writing
Michael Wachtel, Lazar Fleishman and Stefan Newerkla, eds.	Скрещения судеб: Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen. A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov	June 2019	Peter Lang	Slavic
Wendy Belcher	Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, 2e	June 2019	U of Chicago Press	Comparative Literature and AAS
Lee Clark Mitchell	More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style	June 2019	Oxford UP	English
Ruha Benjamin	Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life	June 2019	Duke UP	African American Studies
Aleksandar Hemon	My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You	June 2019	Penguin Random House	Creative Writing
Barbara Graziosi	Homer: A Very Short Introduction	May 2019	OUP	Classics
Andrew Chignell, ed.	Evil: A History	May 2019	Oxford UP	Religion
Tod Hamilton	Immigration and the Remaking of Black America	May 2019	Russell Sage	Sociology
Carles Boix	Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics	May 2019	Princeton UP	Politics and Public Affairs
Michael Wachtel and Philip Gleissner, eds.	Vjačeslav Ivanov und seine deutschsprachigen Verleger: Eine Chronik in Briefen	May 2019	Peter Lang	Slavic
Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto	Projects and Their Consequences: Reiser+Umemoto	May 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 2019	Consorcio de Santiago	Spanish and Portuguese
William Chester Jordan	The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX	April 2019	Princeton UP	History
Frederick Wherry	Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship	April 2019	Russell Sage	Sociology
Johannes Haubold, John Steele, Kathryn Stevens, eds.	Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context	April 2019	Brill	Classics
Franz Prichard	Residual Futures: the Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan	April 2019	Columbia UP	EAS
Beatriz Colmina	X-Ray Architecture	April 2019	Lars Mueller	Architecture
Beatrice Kitzinger	The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age	March 2019	Cambridge UP	Art and Archaeology
Gyan Prakash	Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point	March 2019	Princeton UP	History
Ben Conisbee Baer	Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism	March 2019	Columbia UP	Comparative Literature
Michael Oppenheimer	Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy	March 2019	U of Chicago Press	Geosciences and International Affairs
Michael Dickman	Days & Days	March 2019	Knopf	Creative Writing
Tera W. Hunter	Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century	February 2019	Harvard UP	History
Yiyun Li	Where Reasons End: A Novel	February 2019	Penguin Random House	Creative Writing
Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer	Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974	January 2019	WW Norton	History
Anne Cheng	Ornamentalism	January 2019	Oxford UP	English and American Studies
Fintan O’Toole	Heroic Failure: Brexit And The Politics Of Pain	January 2019	Head of Zeus	Lewis Center
Erika Milam	Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America	January 2019	Princeton UP	History of Science
Martha Friedman	Martha Friedman: Castoffs	2019	Henry Art Gallery	Visual Arts

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