October 9, 2019
In a work that was 10 years in the making, Professor of Professional Practice and future Writing Chair Lis Harris’ exhaustive and sensitive reporting in her new book In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family manages to humanize a deeply polarizing and volatile conflict.
read moreOctober 9, 2019
From the mystique and fate of an outlier blue whale; to the civil war photography of Matthew Brady; to the spooky appeal of a computer game that allows users to create virtual selves; to the museum of broken relationships in Croatia, Leslie Jamison’s new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, is, as NPR called it “[a] heady hybrid of journalism, memoir and criticism.
read moreSeptember 24, 2019
Adjunct Professor Edith Grossman who has brought the English-speaking world the words of Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others, was recently awarded the 2019 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
read moreJune 3, 2019
Professor Richard Ford, author of Independence Day, the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, will receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction during the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival on August 31, 2019.
read moreMarch 22, 2019
Professor Brenda Wineapple's essay, The First President Ever to Be Impeached, is the cover story in the spring issue of The American Scholar.
read moreJanuary 8, 2019
At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, two films by Alumni were nominated, Green Book, directed and co-written by writing alumnus Peter Farrelly '86 and Ralph Breaks the Internet co-directed and co-written by film alumnus Phil Johnston '04.
read moreFebruary 20, 2018
UPDATE: ignitionpress has published Lily Blacksell's debut poetry chapbook, There's No Such Thing, on sale here.
read moreDecember 28, 2017
The Changeling, the latest novel by writing faculty member and alumnus Victor LaValle '98, is featured in "top books of the year" lists of major publications.
read moreDecember 22, 2017
Dismissed, written by alumnus Brian McAuley '13, premiered on VOD platforms on November 21st.
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