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The Einstein of Sex is a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards in the Gay Biography category. Awarded by Lambda Literary, past winners include Edmund White and Cleve Jones.

Daniel Brook's piece on local resistance to the ICE and Border Patrol surge in New Orleans is the cover story of the April 2026 issue of Harper's.

The Einstein of Sex is a finalist for the 2026 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction awarded by The Publishing Triangle and named in memory of pioneering journalist and author Randy Shilts, the author of And The Band Played On and The Mayor of Castro Street. Past winners include Hilton Als and Alexander Chee.

The Einstein of Sex has been longlisted for the  2026 Plutarch Award is awarded to the best biography of the year. Past winners include Robert Caro and David Blight.

The Einstein of Sex named a New Yorker Best Book of 2025

The Einstein of Sex has been shortlisted for the UK-based 2026 Wingate Prize, given annually to the best book, fiction or non-fiction, to convey the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Past winners include Zadie Smith, Nicole Kraus, David Grossman, and WG Sebald. "One of those books," the judges write, "that makes you wonder about everything important you don’t know.... Brook brings Hirschfeld and his insights vividly back to life."

Listen to Daniel Brook discussing THE EINSTEIN OF SEX with Winston Churchill biographer Simon Read on the Biographers International Organization podcast

Hear Mike Pesca interview Daniel Brook and Brandy Schillace on Magnus Hirschfeld's life and work and his meaning in our moment.

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction Editor John McMurtrie calls "Daniel Brook’s revelatory and inspiring [biography] ideal reading during Pride Month" and names it his "Pick of the Week" on the Fully Booked Podcast.

Listen to Daniel Brook's interview on WWNO public radio in New Orleans.

Publishers Weekly bestowed a coveted starred review on The Einstein of Sex.

New York Times opinion contributor Erin Aubry Kaplan and Obie Award-winning actor and playwright Roger Guenveur Smith discuss the past, present, and future of race in America with Daniel Brook in this paperback-launch podcast.

Leading legal podcast, "Ipse Dixit with Brian L. Frye," featured an interview on The Accident of Color. Listen here.

BookTV ran the Charleston Accident of Color event on national television. The event, jointly hosted by Grace Church Cathedral and Mt. Zion AME and attended by Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg and Police Chief Luther T. Reynolds, was held on June 25 and broadcast on August 10.

The Daily Beast has just published "The Other Census Disaster That's Waiting To Happen" about the problems with the race question on the 2020 Census.

Lewis Lapham's storied history periodical, Lapham's Quarterly, has excerpted this section on the Supreme Court's overturning of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and the little-known biracial family backstory of dissenter Justice John Marshall Harlan.

The Accident of Color has been chosen as a BookStory book of the month by the acclaimed BackStory podcast led by historians Ed Ayers (URichmond), Brian Balogh (UVA), Nathan Connoly (JHU), Joanne Freeman (Yale), and Peter Onuf (UVA). It will be discussed in November.

Southern indie booksellers have chosen The Accident of Color as one of their Spring Okra Picks--new books on the region they're recommending to passionate, discerning local readers.

Digg.com, a website dedicated to separating the signal from the noise on the Internet, has chosen The Accident of Color as one of its four June book picks.

A History of Future Cities is now available in Chinese and Russian translations from Xinhua and Strelka Press.