Meander, Because You Can’t See Much While Marching

By Michael Glier, Williams professor of art, Lucy R. Lippard, Thomas Crow and David Breslin. This tribute to Glier’s wide-ranging career provides a glimpse into his intellectual and artistic process. Representative works from throughout his career capture each phase of his growth and exploration as an artist. Inspired by the… Continue reading »

Freedom as Marronage

By Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science. University of Chicago Press, January 2015. In Freedom as Marronage, Professor Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood… Continue reading »

Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity

By Candis Watts Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science. NYU Press, October 2014. Using interviews and survey data, Smith examines diversity among black communities in the U.S. Smith looks at how this growing diversity will affect black people, and how it may influence the political behaviors of a demographic that… Continue reading »

Zombies and Calculus

By Colin C. Adams, Thomas T. Read Professor of Mathematics. The fictional account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. Continue reading »

All Those Vanished Engines

By Paul Park, Senior Lecturer in English. An acclaimed science fiction writer, Park presents a vision of Northern Berkshire County that is larger, darker and grander than the one we know. Park imagines a Civil War where the United States is split in two, then takes the reader to an… Continue reading »

Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything

By Alan White, Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic. January 2014. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything shows the importance of systematic thinking while also defending positions on central philosophical issues are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy. Continue reading »