NEW FACULTY BOOKS
NEW FACULTY BOOKS
notebook
CAMPUS
DARRIN MCMAHON
HISTORY
Equality: The History of an
Elusive Ideal
Basic Books, 528 PP., $35
Our world is filled with soaring inequalities that span wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet, McMahon asks, how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been ambivalent about it. How much do we want and for whom?
RALPH H. CRAIG III
RELIGION
Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual
Biography of Tina Turner
Eerdmans, 291 PP., $26.99
This groundbreaking biography traces Tina’s journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and situates her at the vanguard of largescale movements in religion and pop culture.
REN^E BERGLAND
ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Princeton University Press, 440 PR, $32
Bergland intertwines the stories of the poet and the scientist—two luminary 19th-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences while at the same time they both strove to preserve their enchanted views of nature.
TAREK EL-ARISS
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
Other Press, 272 PR, $17.99
WATER In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice ON in Middle Eastern studFIRE‘S ies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family’s fascinating * Tarek El-Ariss history to come to terms with trauma and desire.
MARCELO GLEISER
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity’s Future
HarperOne, 256 PR, $28.99
Gleiser issues an urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
