With Darkness Came Stars

A Memoir

Audrey Flack

“Vividly traces the artist’s early beginnings, mid-century success, and mature staying power.”—Meg Daly American Art Collector

Pennsylvania Government and Politics

Understanding Public Policy in the Keystone State

Thomas J. Baldino and Paula A. Duda Holoviak

“This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Keystone State’s formal and informal political institutions and players, past and present, and elucidates the place each holds in governing the commonwealth today.

The Rise of the Algorithms

How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World

John M. Jordan

The meteoric rise of online video is reshaping the competition for human attention. The Rise of the Algorithms argues that this new technology has changed the way we interact with others, our relationships with public institutions, and our very own behaviors and psyches.

Rival Wisdoms

Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Nancy Mason Bradbury

“Rival Wisdoms is a revelatory book, composed with grace and clarity. The insights Bradbury offers into how the culture of wisdom literature permeates the Canterbury Tales enhance understanding of Chaucer’s vision, from the fabliaux and the Wife of Bath through Melibee and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”—David Raybin, coeditor of Chaucer: Visual Approaches

Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

The US Information Agency and Africa

Darren Newbury

“Cold War Photographic Diplomacy’s major achievement is the way that it theorizes a large archive by showing the transatlantic interactions between the image makers, the imagery, and the audiences of the images. It is a fascinating read.”Liam Buckley, Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University

Persuasions of God

Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard

Paul Lynch

“Persuasions of God makes a major contribution to critical conversations concerning rhetoric and religion. As a post-Christian intervention, it deals skillfully with Jewish and Christian scriptures and especially with Christian theological literature as well as relevant work in rhetorical theory. As in his earlier scholarship, Paul Lynch is here not only in dialogue with various disciplinary communities; he also explicitly discusses and exemplifies how such dialogue should generously take place.”—Steven Mailloux, author of Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

The New York Times Book Review calls Audrey Flack’s memoir, With Darkness Came Stars, “a vivid, gossipy chronicle” and “something to savor.”

Congratulations to Adam Jasienski, whose book Praying to Portraits has won the 2024 Eleanor Tufts Award from the Society for Iberian Global Art!

Reading Religion says that Peter James Yoder’s Pietism and the Sacraments “has clearly laid out the key components of Francke’s sacramental theology in a manner that will prove immensely helpful for students and researchers seeking a fuller picture of early Pietist thought and practice.”

The Art Newspaper calls Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism “argument-driven and intelligent.”

Two articles are free to read in the most recent issue of Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies: “Some Reflections on Decolonizing Archaeology in a Fragmented World” and “Between the Lines: Toward a Recontextualized Archaeological Practice through Dialogues between Fieldwork and Archival Research.”

The article “Soul Talk—Langston Hughes and Nina Simone’s Friendship: A Conversation with Jason Miller” is free to access for three months from The Langston Hughes Review.

Each new article in Palestine/Israel Review will publish under advance publication. Read the latest article here.

The Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and Its Corners

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich, Moran Hagbi, and Joe Uziel

“The Temple Mount/Haram aš-Šarīf has fascinated scholars since the dawn of modern archaeology, and the pious for millennia before that. The studies assembled here document excavations and conservation at the southern and southwestern retaining walls of the Herodian Temple, with special care for all periods—from the Iron Age to Herod the Great to medieval Islam. This magnificent volume is a monument to decades of dedicated research, a resource for generations to come!”—Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University

Before There Were Kings

A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges

Elie Assis

“Assis utilizes a close reading of the book of Judges and interacts with the secondary literature while contributing to a reading of the text that explains how the parts produce the whole. Before There Were Kings makes an important contribution, not simply in the method of reading, but in the particular way in which Assis’s perspective contributes to an understanding of the book.”—K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Divinity School, Trinity International University

Good Girls Go to Hell

Tohar Sherman-Friedman

“A delicate coming of age tale illuminating contemporary Israeli society. A powerful graphic novel that masterfully tackles the major conflicts of our time, including religion versus atheism, conservatism versus liberalism, and occupied territories versus the big city. Through her unparalleled talent and mastery of the comics form, Tohar Sherman-Friedman proves herself to be one of the most important voices in graphic literature today.”—Asaf Hanuka, author of The Realist

Escaping Wars and Waves

Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

“Artistically masterful. . . . Sketchbooks like Kugler’s make readers feel as if they are sitting beside the artist—watching the refugees climb onto the beach of the Greek island of Kos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey, or smelling the tea sold by a vendor in an Iraqi refugee camp.”—New York Review of Books