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| Author | Title | Pub Date | Publisher | Department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Wailoo | Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette | forthcoming 2021 | U Chicago Press | History and Public Affairs |
| Harriet I. Flower | Empire and Religion in the Roman World | forthcoming 2021 | CUP | Classics |
Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner, eds. | Frederick Kiesler’s Magic Architecture | forthcoming 2021 | MIT | Architecture |
| Monica Huerta | Magical Habits | forthcoming 2021 | Duke UP | English and American Studies |
| Joyce Carol Oates | Breathe | forthcoming 2021 | HarperCollins | Creative Writing |
| Paul Muldoon | Howdie-Skelp | forthcoming 2021 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | Creative Writing |
| Jhumpa Lahiri, trans. | Trust | forthcoming 2021 | Europa Editions | Creative Writing |
| Susan Wheeler | Presidents | forthcoming 2021 | Solid Objects Press | Creative Writing |
| A.M. Homes | Phoenix; The Unfolding | forthcoming 2021 | Viking-Random House | Creative Writing |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | La raccolta di Nerina | forthcoming 2021 | Guanda | Creative Writing |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Whereabouts | forthcoming 2021 | Knopf | Creative Writing |
| Rowan Ricardo Phillips | When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness | forthcoming 2021 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | Creative Writing |
| Dennis Feeney and Joel B. Lande | How Literatures Begin: A Global History | July 2021 | Princeton UP | Classics and German |
| Erin Besler and Ian Besler | Best Practices: A Catalog and Photo Essay About the City of Los Angeles | June 2021 | Applied Research & Design/ORO | Architecture |
| Jan-Werner Muller | Democracy Rules | June 2021 | Farrar Straus and Giroux | Politics and UCHV |
| Spyros Papapetros | Pre-Architecture | May 2021 | MIT | Architecture |
| Kirstin Valdez Quade | The Five Wounds | April 2021 | Norton | Creative Writing |
| 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 |
| Karl Kusserow, ed. | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective | January 2021 | Yale UP | Art Museum |
| Ksenia Chizhova | January 2021 | Columbia UP | Comparative Literature and EAS | |
| 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 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Barbara Graziosi and Alessandro Barchiesi | Ritorni difficili | forthcoming 2020 | Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura | Classics |
| Julian E. Zelizer | 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. | 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. | 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 | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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 | December 2019 | thelifeyoucansave.org | UCHV | |
Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz, eds. | 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 | 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 | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
