By Isy Abraham-Ravesonn ’15. Illustrated by Todd Hall ’16. Mascot Books, October 2019. In this book for all ages, follow Elephant and Meerkat as they learn about power dynamics, recognizing nonverbal cues, setting and respecting boundaries, and that consent yesterday does not guarantee it… Continue reading »
By Anne Royston ’08. The MIT Press, September 2019. Available on Amazon. In this book, Anne Royston argues that theoretical works signify through their materiality―such nonsemantic elements as typography or color―as well as their semantic content. Examining works by Jacques Derrida, Avital Ronell, Georges… Continue reading »
Lisa Gruenberg ’76. TidePool Press, August 2019. In this memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder. In dreamlike sequences she weaves known facts of the lives of those lost into tableaus of imagined family… Continue reading »
By Anthony Kronman ’68. Available on Amazon. Free Press, August 2019. Kronman makes the argument that to graduate as good citizens, college students have to be tested in a system that isn’t wholly focused on being good to them. Continue reading »
By John Clayton ’85. Pegasus Books, August 2019. Available on Amazon. John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of… Continue reading »
By Jill Shulman ’87. Little, Brown Spark, August 2019. Available on Amazon. Jill Margaret Shulman, a college admissions coach, application evaluator, college writing instructor, essayist, author, and empathetic parent, guides you through the entire crazy ritual that college admissions has become, month by month,… Continue reading »
By Bhamati Viswanathan ’86. Routledge, July 2019. Available on Amazon. Creators and creative industries are struggling to navigate the digital age. Intellectual property rights, including copyrights, trademarks, and patents, offer invaluable tools to help creative industries remain viable and sustainable. But to be fully effective,… Continue reading »
By John Corso Esquivel ’97. Routledge, July 2019. This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight U.S. and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Esquivel posits craft… Continue reading »
By Johnny Sundstrom ’66. Xlibris, June 2019. Available on Amazon. Homegrown is the first volume of the “Land of the Evergreens” trilogy which aims to provide a cultural memoir of the 1980s, that transitional decade midway between the 1960s and the new 2000-millennium. Portrayed… Continue reading »
By Kerr Houston ’92. BRILL, June 2019. Available on Amazon. In The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston offers a detailed chronological overview of art historiansevolving attempts to account for the physical position of the viewer in discussing works of art. Continue reading »
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