No Place Like Home
Through archival photographs, maps, portraits, and drawings, a new book traces four centuries of Middletown history, focused on the development and evolution of High Street.
One of the latest books…
Books
Recommended Reading: Books by Barot ’92, Sokol ’93, Schneider ’97, and Others
Rick Barot ’92
The Galleons: Poems (Milkweed, 2020)
In his fourth collection of poetry, for which he won the 2020 Poet…
“Gandhi and Guerrilla”: Present-Day Echoes of the Mayday Protests
Debates over Black Lives Matter tactics and approaches to public dissent have parallels in historic civil diso…
Lessons from Thoreau, Social-Distancing Pioneer (Sort Of)
Bob Pepperman Taylor ’80, P’06 brings a classic text into a contemporary light.
In his new book, Lessons fr…
Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs
Above all, author Jennifer Finney Boylan '80 is interested in storytelling and its capacity (and limitations) in express…
A Meditation on Loss, Love, and Survival
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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…