The Einstein of Sex has been longlisted 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.
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.
