Monthly Archives: June 2015
Postcards from Paris
In Bettyville (Viking, 2015), magazine and book editor George Hodgman, travels from New York City to Paris, but readers should not expect a glamorous travelogue. The destination is Paris, Missouri, and Hodgman returns to his childhood home and cares for his mother who … Continue reading
Yeats and Afterwords
Associate Professor of English Marjorie Howes is a contributor to and co-editor (with Joseph Valente) of Yeats and Afterwords (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014). The book’s contributors articulate Nobel Prize winner W. B. Yeats’s powerful, multi-layered sense of belatedness as … Continue reading
Kindness of strangers
A new book by Casey Beaumier, SJ, director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, recalls his days as a Jesuit novice and a pilgrimage he took to help in his discernment. A Purposeful Path: How Far Can … Continue reading
Blueprints
Boston College alumna and best-selling author Barbara Delinsky has published her latest novel, Blueprints (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). Blueprints is the story of Caroline and Jamie MacAfee. The day after her 56th birthday, Caroline is told that she is too old to … Continue reading
Origins of international adoption
In her new book, To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (Stanford University Press, June 2015), Assistant Professor of History Arissa Oh contends that although Korea was not the first place that Americans adopted from internationally, it was the … Continue reading
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His final book
The newly published Domination and Global Political Justice: Conceptual, Historical and Institutional Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) is the final publication from Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, an assistant professor of philosophy who died from cancer in 2014. Trejo-Mathys served as the book’s editor, along with Barbara Buckinx … Continue reading
Conservation lab as classroom
Last month, Burns Library Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard gave a presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries, New England chapter annual meeting. The conference was focused on the evolution of the academic library as a place where students and faculty are … Continue reading
An immigration picture
Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. The national and ethnic profile of immigrants to the US changed dramatically, including large numbers of arrivals … Continue reading
Why literature matters
In The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), Boston College alumnus Robert Waxler contends that deep and close readings of literature can help people understand themselves and the world around them. He says people need … Continue reading
From West Africa
In her book, African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America (New York University Press, 2014), Boston College alumna Violet Showers Johnson and co-author Marilyn Halter tell the story of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United … Continue reading
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