New Books in Foreign Policy

Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the...

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Elizabeth Oglesby and Diane Nelson, “Guatemala: The Question of Genocide,” The Journal of Genocide Research” (T...

What difference can a trial make, really? In Guatemala: The Question of Genocide (Taylor and...

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Leon Borensztein, “Sharon” (Kehrer Verlag, 2016)

Photographer Leon Borensztein began Sharon (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), his most personal project,...

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Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup, eds., “Recovering Buddhism in Modern China” (Columbia UP, 2016)

The essays in Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup’s new edited volume, Recovering Buddhism in Modern...

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Amir Hussain, “Muslims and the Making of America” (Baylor UP, 2016)

Muslims and the Making of America (Baylor University Press, 2016) offers a succinct and gripping...

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Terence Degnan, “Still Something Rattles” (Sock Monkey Press, 2016)

I had the pleasure of interviewing poet, Terence Degnan while he sat on a bench in Sunset Park,...

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Owen McGee, “Arthur Griffith” (Merrion Press, 2015)

As the founder of Sinn Fin and a leading architect of Irish independence, Arthur Griffith ranks...

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Ashaki Jackson, “Language Lesson” (Miel Books, 2016)

How do we mourn those we’ve lost? What are the rituals and rites that allow us to understand our...

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Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, “Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine” (Bran...

Much of the existing literature on Mandatory Palestine adheres to a dual society model which...

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Timothy S. Huebner, “Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism” (U. Press of Kansas, 2016)

Timothy S. Huebner, the Irma O. Sternberg Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, has...

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Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago...

How should we understand the interwar years in Britain? In Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible...

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David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. “Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England”...

Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England (Duquesne University Press,...

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Andrew T. Abernethy, “The Book of Isaiah and Gods Kingdom: A Thematic-theological Approach” (InterVarsity Press 2...

As with the other major prophets, the Book of Isaiah can be intimidating–its sheer length, its...

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Devin Naar, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece” (Stanford UP, 2016)

In Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press,...

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“Best New Books in Political Science 2016: American Politics Edition”

We are nearing the end of the year and have for you a best-of-2016 podcast featuring an array of...

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Jen Manion, “Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Jen Manion is an associate professor of history at Amherst College. Her book Liberty’s Prisoners:...

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Scott Selisker, “Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

In Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (University of Minnesota...

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Richard Griffiths, “What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-1945” (Routle...

During the mid- to late 1930s, a small but socially prominent group of right-wing Britons took a...

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Jennifer L. Palmer, “Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Jennifer Palmer’s new book, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (University...

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Amy Von Lintel, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1918” (Radius, 2016)

In “Georgia O’Keeffe: At Home in the Heartland,” a text accompanying the exhibition catalogue...

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