Letters & Science Bookshelf

Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

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Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
Imagining World Order Chenxi Tang 2018 Book
The Word of the Muse Bridgette Portman 2023 Book
Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French Co-Editor: Mairi-Louise McLaughlin 2024 Book
Blue in Green Chiyuma Elliott 2021 Book
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley Carolyn Chen 2022 Book

T. J. Clark on Bruegel

2024

Renowned art historian T. J. Clark unveils the hidden depths of Bruegel the Elder’s work in this captivating analysis of some of the artist’s most famous masterpieces. Taking the medieval concept of Schlaraffenland, a whimsical dreamland of milk and honey, as his starting point, Clark reveals...Read more about T. J. Clark on Bruegel

The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

2024

This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the...Read more about The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

2024

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance....Read more about Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Take a Breath, You're Getting Excited

2024

Take a Breath catapults you right into the frenzy spiral of Yakir Ben-Moshe's dating life. Against the backdrop of violence, war, and trauma that has always permeated Israeli society and shaped the personal as well as the political discourse, the round dance of lovers entering...Read more about Take a Breath, You're Getting Excited

Racial Domination

2024

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic...Read more about Racial Domination

Highway Thirteen: Stories

2024

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people.

In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They...Read more about Highway Thirteen: Stories

Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French

2024

This volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at...Read more about Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French

Historical Turns Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

2024

Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century. Through bold new analyses of five legendary works of German silent cinema—The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Destiny...Read more about Historical Turns Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE

2024

This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives. Early scholarship, often by philologists and religious scholars,...Read more about ‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

2024

Considering Butler's “tragic trilogy”-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is...Read more about Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler