Mark Taylor, Cluett Professor of Humanities, Emeritus. The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end?… Continue reading »
Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Heinemann, September 2018. Available on Amazon. This is a book of stories about students and teachers. But it is also a book about children’s development. Each chapter tells… Continue reading »
By Eiko Maruko Siniawer ’97, Professor of History. Cornell University Press, October 2018. Siniawer explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She… Continue reading »
By Soledad Fox Maura, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Arcade Publishing, July 2018. Available on Amazon. In this biography of Jorge Semprún, Soledad Fox Maura reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over. Semprún enjoyed… Continue reading »
By Zach Wood ’18. Dutton, June 2018. Available on Amazon. In his book, Wood shares his troubled upbringing–from a difficult early childhood filled with pain, uncertainty, and conflict to the struggles of code-switching between his home in a rough neighborhood and his elite private school–Zach… Continue reading »
By Eugene J. (E.J.) Johnson ’59, retired Professor of Art History. Cambridge University Press, May 2018. In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces… Continue reading »
By Susan Dunn, Massachusetts Professor of Humanities. Yale University Press, April 2018. Available on Amazon. In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the… Continue reading »
By Darel E. Paul, Professor of Political Science. Baylor University Press, March 2018. Over the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public’s view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best by the movement of same-sex marriage from the position of a fringe few to the… Continue reading »
By Magnus Bernhardsson, Brown Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Arabic Studies, Leadership Studies and Religion. Eymundsson, March, 2018. In Icelandic. Professor Bernhardsson’s description: “It is about the modern Middle East written for the general audience and is based on my History 207 course at Williams. There… Continue reading »
By Alexander Bevilacqua, Assistant Professor of History. Harvard University Press (Belknap), February 2018. Drawing on Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin sources, Alexander Bevilacqua’s rich intellectual history retraces the routes—both mental and physical—that Christian scholars traveled to acquire, study, and comprehend Arabic manuscripts. The knowledge they generated… Continue reading »
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