Eugene J. Johnson, Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus and Michael J. Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art. Princeton Architectural Press, December 2018. Available on Amazon. Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams College routinely ranks atop the best liberal arts colleges in the… Continue reading »
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 »
Francis Oakley, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus; President, Emeritus; and Senior Oakley Fellow. University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. Available on Amazon. From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part participant-observer’s educational history. As president emeritus at Williams… 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 »
Alan Hirsch, Lecturer in Humanities, Chair of Justice and Law Studies. City Lights Publishers, 2018. Available on Amazon. Constitutional scholar Alan Hirsch offers clear and to-the-point guidance for all matters relating to removing a sitting president—from the Founder’s constitutional protections against executive criminality, and the… 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 »
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