By Samantha Barbas ’94. The University of Chicago Press, June 2021. Civil liberties lawyer Morris Ernst waged many battles in the courtroom, fighting against censorship, arguing for reproductive rights, advocating for unions and seeking protections for sexual expression and public speech. Active in the 1930s and ’40s,… Continue reading »
By Jim Shepard, J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence. Alfred A. Knopf, May 2021. When an 11-year-old boy named Aleq breathes in long-buried molecules that have just been exposed by mining, he becomes the first victim of an epidemic outbreak. Yet, unlike many… Continue reading »
By Matthew Swanson ’97 and Robbi Behr ’97. Imprint Publishing, April 2021. Author Matthew Swanson and illustrator Robbi Behr team up again in this picture book for ages 4 to 7, a fictional story based on their real-life experiences. A young girl takes a long trip with… Continue reading »
Edited by Christopher M.B. Nugent, Professor of Chinese. Columbia University Press, May 2021. Across thee millennia of China’s literary history, the textual tradition has been supported by a framework of information processing, encoding, sorting and more—all marks of what today we consider information. Essays from contributors provide… Continue reading »
By William S. Dudley ’58. Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2021. While Great Britain’s Royal Navy was large and well provisioned at the beginning of the War of 1812, the United States’ navy was small and underfunded. Throughout the war, the U.S. faced challenges such as acquiring… Continue reading »
By Michael Blanding ’95. Hachette Books, March 2021. Sir Thomas North, Elizabethan courtier, wrote several plays for his patron, Robert Dudley, to help Dudley gain the favor of Queen Elizabeth I. Years later, Shakespeare signed his name to plays with similar themes and details strikingly similar to… Continue reading »
By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and The Class of 1959 Director of Program in Teaching at Williams College. Harvard University Press, January 2021. What are children thinking as they encounter the world around them? How do they solve problems and explain new concepts? Are adults… Continue reading »
By Field Horne ’73. Kiskatom Publishing Company, 2020. Following a nearly 120-year history, Horne traces the roots of Luther Forest in Saratoga Springs, chronicling the choices of the original landowners and their impact on the sustainability of the forest. Continue reading »
By Lauren Edmondson Carstens ’06. Graydon House Books, February 2021. After Daisy Richardson’s father—a senator—dies and a scandal is made public, Daisy tries to keep the family afloat despite now being social outcasts who are down to their last dime. Although Daisy longs to run away, her… Continue reading »
By Fabienne Marsh ’79. Windtree Press, January 2021. In an effort to avoid being lonely for the rest of his life, 38-year-old Jim Rosso signs up with Smartheart, a dating service tailored to Ivy League graduates. Unfortunately, the one woman he’s interested in is married to his… Continue reading »
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