Veronica Franco in Dialogue A Cornell professor of Romance studies, Marilyn Migiel ’75 won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for this examination of Franco’s life and poetry.
The Lawless Land Beth Morrison, PhD ’02, is senior curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum; her brother, Boyd, is a ‘New York Times’ bestselling author of 12 thrillers. They’ve teamed up to launch a series about the adventures of a couple in 14th-century England.
Wild by Design An environmental historian on the faculty at Williams College, Laura Martin, PhD ’15, devotes this release from Harvard University Press to a seemingly paradoxical pursuit: ecological restoration, the attempt to design natural spaces in order to repair the damage done by humans.
Selling Your Expertise This guide to helping professionals increase their revenue, by Robert Chen ’02, is aimed at lawyers, accountants, consultants, investment bankers, and others in the knowledge economy.
The Sky We Shared This novel for middle-grade readers, by Shirley Reva Levine Vernick ’83, is set during World War II. It alternates between the perspectives of two girls from enemy nations: Nellie, who lives in rural Oregon, and Tamiko, in southern Japan.
How to Be Eaten Classic fairy tale characters are re-imagined as women in a trauma support group in this debut novel by Maria Adelmann ’07, set in present-day New York City.
Muddling Through the Sexual Revolution Subtitled “A Survivor’s Report from the Frigid Fifties to the #MeToo Movement,” this memoir—dedicated, by first name, to dozens of women he’s known over the decades—recalls the social, romantic, and carnal exploits of travel author and former Playboy editor Albert Podell ’58.
Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane ’74 is a professor of film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book studies the use of scale in cinema, particularly the close-up—and how such techniques can be used to impact the viewer’s sense of place, space, and orientation.
The Tinderbox Plot A Big Red engineering grad is the heroine of this neo-Cold War thriller by Michael Berns ’64, PhD ’68, in which an elite team of ex-KGB agents smuggles a nuclear bomb into the U.S. with the aim of causing mass causalities.
The Women’s House of Detention The institution of the title was a women’s prison in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village from 1929–74. As Hugh Ryan ’00 (a historian who previously penned “When Brooklyn Was Queer”) explains, it played a key role in the city’s LGBTQ+ history and broader culture.