Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs
Above all, author Jennifer Finney Boylan '80 is interested in storytelling and its capacity (and limitations) in expressing the strongest human emotions. This has been especially on her mind during he…
Books
A Meditation on Loss, Love, and Survival
[caption id="attachment_15757" align="alignleft" width="212"] Run Me to Earth, a novel by Paul Yoon ’02, brings Laos’s difficult history to light.[/caption]
While conducting research for his 2017 story collection, The…
Scenes from Shangri-La, by Michael Yamashita ’71
Michael Yamashita ’71 (©Michael Yamashita)
For more than 35 years, photographer Michael Yamashita ’71 has worked for Na…
Recommended Reading: Books by Vidich ’72, P’00, ’03; Moezzi ’01; Wiener ’09; and Others
Paul Vidich ’72, P’00, ’03
The Coldest Warrior (Pegasus, 2020)
In Paul Vidich’s latest work of spy fiction, governme…
Michael S. Roth ’78: Envisioning College as a “Safe Enough Space”
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth is the author of a new book, Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses, published on August 20 by Yale Unive…
THE MOVIE MUSICAL! by Jeanine Basinger
In her new book (to be published this November by Alfred A. Knopf; excerpted below), Basinger tells the whole story of the Hollywood musical.
Fred Astaire, that most continental and debonair of men, was a quintessen…
A Graphic Novel that Captivates
“The best graphic novels suggest rather than decree. They allow readers to search for truth in what is shown and said, b…
7 Transformative Keys to Increasing Empathy
Using neuroscience-based research and an acronym, Helen Riess '78, MD, teaches E.M.P.A.T.H.Y.® as a way to improve …
Professors’ Bookshelf: Authors Curran, Finn, Glick, and Scheibe
Andrew S. Curran, William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely …
Poetry Corner: “DEVOTION (REFLECTION)” by Mark McCloughan ’10
DEVOTION (REFLECTION)
when contemplating the word devotion
and its scalloped edges, the seaside-at-sunset-
pink it of…