Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.
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Can the Colleges Be Saved?
May 24, 2012
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
by Andrew Delbanco
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The Most Charming Pagan
December 8, 2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
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Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?
November 24, 2011
The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Paid For
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
by Benjamin Ginsberg
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel
Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
by Christopher Newfield
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities
by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, and Michael S. McPherson
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
by Anthony T. Kronman
Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education
by Nancy Folbre
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Jumping Through the Computer Screen
December 23, 2010
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
by Ian F. McNeely and Lisa Wolverton
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Move the Warburg to L.A.?
October 14, 2010
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Save the Warburg Library!
September 30, 2010
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‘A Jewel of a Thousand Facets’
June 24, 2010
The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World
by Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt
Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion
edited by Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt
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The Pope and the Hedgehog
May 27, 2010
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In a Fantastic, Lost World
May 13, 2010
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 1–May 23, 2010; the Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20–September 6, 2010; the Dallas Museum of Art, October 3, 2010–January 2, 2011; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 23–April 17,
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 8, 2008–February 8, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 2–June 13, 2010.
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Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities
April 8, 2010
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‘But They Burned Giordano Bruno!’
November 20, 2008
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
by Ingrid D. Rowland
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The Wonders of the Loom
January 17, 2008
Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Thomas P. Campbell
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Stoppard’s Romance
May 31, 2007
The Coast of Utopia a trilogy by Tom Stoppard, directed by Jack O'Brien
The Coast of Utopia
by Tom Stoppard
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Rediscovering a Lost Continent
October 5, 2006
Italy Illuminated
by Flavio Biondo, edited and translated by Jeffrey White
Invectives
by Francesco Petrarca, edited and translated by David Marsh
Humanist Educational Treatises
edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf
Biographical Writings
by Giannozzo Manetti, edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl
Commentaries
by Pius II, edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta
Later Travels
by Cyriac of Ancona, edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss
History of the Florentine People
by Leonardo Bruni, edited and translated by James Hankins
Platonic Theology
by Marsilio Ficino, edited by James Hankins with William Bowen and translated by Michael J. B. Allen with John Warden
On Discovery
by Polydore Vergil, edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver
Humanist Comedies
edited and translated by Gary R. Grund
Short Epics
by Maffeo Vegio, edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam with James Hankins
Silvae
by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi
Letters
by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Shane Butler
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Prague: The Glorious Moment
December 15, 2005
Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437
Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jirí Fajt
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The Ways of Genius
December 2, 2004
The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture
The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture
Catalog of the exhibition by Mordechai Feingold
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Big Book on Campus
September 23, 2004
The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
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In No Man’s Land
February 26, 2004
Judaism and Enlightenment
by Adam Sutcliffe
The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a Match made in Heaven
by Maurice Olender, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
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The Witch Hunters’ Crusade
September 26, 2002
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief
by Walter Stephens
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Great Walls
May 9, 2002
Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
Catalog of the exhibition by Thomas P. Campbell and others
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Lost New York
November 15, 2001
Ben Katchor: Picture Stories by Ben Katchor
Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
by Ben Katchor
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
by Ben Katchor
The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District
by Ben Katchor
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A Passion for the Past
March 8, 2001
The Greeks and Greek Civilization Jacob Burckhardt, edited by Oswyn Murray, translated from the German by Sheila Stern
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
Lionel Gossman
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Over the Rainbow
November 30, 2000
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World an exhibition at the New York Public Library, October 14,2000-January 27, 2001
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Societyin the Western World
edited by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent
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The Jew from Tangier
June 24, 1999
A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel
by A.B. Yehoshua
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Remaking the Renaissance
March 4, 1999
The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
by Ingrid Rowland
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Believe It or Not
November 5, 1998
A Collector’s Cabinet 17-November 1, 1998.
exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May, Catalog of the exhibition byWheelock, Arthur K. Jr.
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
by Lorraine Daston, by Katharine Park
Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters
by Rosamond Purcell
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Hello to Berlin
August 14, 1997
The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd
The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930 by Frank Whitford
Adolph Menzel (1815-1905): Between Romanticism and Impressionism edited by Claude Keisch, edited by Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
Berlin: The City and the Court Smith. by Jules Laforgue
George Grosz: Berlin-New York edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster
Reading Berlin 1900 by Peter Fritzsche
The Writing on the Walls: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter by Shimon Attie
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The Rest vs. the West
April 10, 1997
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
by Walter D. Mignolo
Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650 edited by Claire Farago
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Vermeer’s Mystery Theater
January 11, 1996
Johannes Vermeer 12, 1995-February 11, 1996 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, November
Johannes Vermeer Hague/ Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Jr. Wheelock
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Strange and Desperate Cures
November 16, 1995
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman
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Ah, Wilderness
October 20, 1994
Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape by Christopher S. Wood
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The Soul’s Entrepreneurs
March 3, 1994
The First Jesuits by John O'Malley
Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint by W.W. Meissner S.J., M.D.
Jésuites: Une Multibiographie, Vol. 1: Les conquérants, Vol. 2: Les revenants from Pantheon/Bessie Books, winter 1995) by Jean Lacouture
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The Wrong Way to Lower College Costs
May 31, 2011
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Academic Freedom After the Cronon Controversy
April 4, 2011
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Save the Warburg Library!
September 1, 2010
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The Pope and the Hedgehog
April 20, 2010
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Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities
March 9, 2010
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A Nazi at Harvard
November 2, 2009