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In his much-anticipated book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021), Jamal Greene ’95 illustrates how our approach to rights is dividing the country.We believe that holding a...

In How Other People Make Love (Wayne State University Press 2021), Thisbe Nissen ’90chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these...

In her latest novel, Antiquities (Knopf 2021), Cynthia Ozick, Jan. ’46 has crafted a narrative that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings. She writes of an individual who looks back on his years as a trustee with a...

In lost and found departments (Cornerstone Press 2020), Heather Dubrow ’62 has compiled a collection of poems that address loss and occasional recovery – of words, of people, of memories, and of literary genres. The collection includes found poetry and monologues, to...

In publishing Urban Wild Life: A Collection of Poems for Autumn 2020 (Xlibris 2020), Jacqueline Strachan-Laughlin ’71 has returned to her first love, poetry. Now in her sixth decade, she has issued a first person, 21st century narrative that...

Kip Zegers is retired HCHS faculty. Publishing his eleventh book, A Room in the House of Time (Dos Madres Press 2020), he uses poetry to revisit the intimate bonds of family; to address his role in an urban setting as a teacher, husband, and citizen;...

Doron Taussig ’99 has published a book that poses the question: Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities; in...

In his latest book, FANS: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding (Algonquin Press 2021), Larry Olmsted ’84 examines the lives of those who are passionate about sports. He makes the case that the more you identify...

Jonathan Warren ’84, associate professor and former chair of the York University Department of English in Toronto, Canada, has edited a new and expanded Norton Critical Edition of Henry James’ gothic novella The Turn of the Screw(W.W. Norton 2021). His first...

Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers(Routledge 2020) brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz ’75/’76 ICY, some published for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the...

In Poems for Our Times (Austin Macauley 2021), Joyce BUKARESKY Block ’57 expresses the endurance of youthful to mature love as well as the poignancy of loss. Through her writings, Block shares her passion for social justice movements, and...

Tracing the history of the dedicated men and women in military service, journalist and author Chris Lombardi ’80 has presented an account of those in the armed forces who have exercised the power of dissent. In I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and...

In a book assessing the long-range tactics of the U.S. military, Nora Bensahel ’89, Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, casts a critical lens towards its future. In Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries...

Deborah Tannen ’62, Ph.D., University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and author of numerous books and articles about the ways in which the language of everyday conversation affects relationships, now turns to memoir. In Finding my...

Sarah Kovner ’91, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, recently published Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps (Harvard University Press 2020). Her book provides new...

2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. However, the amendment did not guarantee their wider equal rights with men. Over the decades that followed, many women activists coalesced in order to create an Equal...

Michelle MARDER Kamhi ’54 embraces a perspective about art that runs contrary to the practice of many contemporary artists and the scholarly works of art historians. She posits that traditional, figurative art should be upheld for its aesthetic creation, and that many...

Co-authored by Jannette Domingo ’66, Ph.D., Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (Books & Books Press 2019) presents the experience of students who engaged in an eight day sit in to...

Robert Berk ’16, author of Why Wait?: How I Jump-Started My Entrepreneurial Journey Before Graduating Into a Covid-19 World – And How You Can, Too! (Independently Published 2020), is on an accelerated path to success. As a student at Hamilton College, he accepted a...

The coronavirus pandemic has caught us completely unaware and, after several months of living in lockdown, there are not many positive outcomes in sight. Amid the rising rate of infections and deaths, we are making our way in the middle of an unforeseen crisis. Judith...

Franci’s War (Penguin 2020) is a World War II memoir written by the late mother of Helen Epstein ‘65. Born into a privileged family in Prague, Franci Rabinek Epstein was a spirited young fashion designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection by saying she...

In These Ghosts Are Family (Simon & Schuster 2020), a debut novel by Maisy Card ’00, tells of the emotional entanglements that have arisen from a long-kept family secret. Central to the story are the decisions of a patriarch, whose actions have had a powerful...