Save The Last Dance

By Eric Joseph & Eva Ungar Grudin, Senior Lecturer in Art, Emerita. Hargrove Press, May 2016. Adam and Sarah had planned to get married in high school but ultimately called it off. Now in their late 60s, they reconnect before their 50th high school reunion, but… Continue reading »

How Big Should Our Government Be?

 Co-authored by Jon Bakija, Professor of Economics. University of California Press. May 2016. The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won’t fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government… Continue reading »

The Far West

By Zachary Wadsworth, Assistant Professor of Music. Bridge Records, Inc., April 2016. The centerpiece of the CD is the title track, a cantata that features the poetry of Tim Dlugos, a New York poet who died of AIDS in 1990 while studying to become a priest. Continue reading »

Four Weathercocks

By Cassandra Cleghorn, Chair and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English. Marick Press, April 2016. Available on Amazon. Let’s consider wind a force as internal as it is external, that there is a spiritual wind as surely as there is an elemental one. Thinking so… Continue reading »

Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader

With contributions by Neil Roberts, chair of religion and associate professor of Africana studies. Rowman & Littlefield International. April 2016. An exploration of the scholarship of Paget Henry, current Brown University professor, who has contributed heavily to the study of Caribbean political science, philosophy and critical theory. Continue reading »

The Comfort of Strangers: Social Life and Literary Form

By Gage McWeeney, Professor of English. Oxford University Press, February 2016. Focusing on the ways that both Victorian literature and modern social thought responded to an emergent “society of strangers,” The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new relation between literary form and the socially dense environments… Continue reading »