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Part memoir, part political history, “The Last American Road Trip” is one mother’s promise to her children that their country will be there for them in the future ― even though at times she struggles to believe it herself.

A novel of one young woman’s post-college foray into the adult realities of landlords, economics and urban politics in the Bicentennial summer of 1976.

In this book of poetry, Alex Mouw, MA ’20, PhD ’25, confronts religious devotion as something to grasp and something that seizes.

This novel by Joel Greenberg, MA ’81, JD ’81, explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history.

Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, was 9 when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were “stifling his creativity.” Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family’s living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to […]

Jason Green, AB ’03, was raised on fellowship — literally. Fellowship Lane served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher’s kid, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to public service. After working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the young attorney spent four and a half […]

A warm and funny family story that will have kids rooting for Ping-Ping — a girl who is ready to kick all the assumptions made about her aside.

Training in Charity captures what it meant to begin a life in medicine before computers and technology softened the edges-a time when skill was learned by doing, compassion was earned at the bedside, and the making of a doctor was as raw and real as the city that held him.

The definitive portrait of Rosemary Woodruff Leary. Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07, reclaims her narrative and voice from those who dismissed her. Page-turning, revelatory, and utterly compelling, the book shines an overdue spotlight on a pioneering psychedelic seeker.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Forget your mother’s tube of Revlon. Lipstick today is as messy—and fascinating—as changing attitudes towards femininity. Mining the experience of women across culture, class, and generation, this book tosses out expired ideas about beauty and power like so […]