Author Archives: Bookworm
The Camino Ignaciano
An updated edition of the Official Guide to the Camino Ignaciano has been released by Jesuit Sources, part of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. Written by José Luis Iriberri, S.J., and Chris Lowney, the Official Guide to … Continue reading
A collection of essays by Chris Bruell
Boston College alumni Eric Buzzetti and Devin Stauffer, who both earned doctorates in political science from BC in 1998, have edited a landmark collection of writings by Christopher Bruell, a highly regarded Boston College professor of political science who died … Continue reading
‘Nabokov on the Heights’
Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College (Academic Studies Press, 2025), edited by Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer, features essays by BC undergraduate and graduate students who took Shrayer’s seminar on the Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov. The … Continue reading
Drama and romance in a small town
In a new literary romance novel by Liz O’Neill, expectations set for 19-year-old Sabina McTigue’s future are challenged when the young socialite meets the charming Colin Hatch, a charter pilot with a cloudy history. Set in 1950s coastal New England, … Continue reading
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The role of migrant shelters in Mexico
Aside from being one of the most important migration corridors in the world, Mexico is becoming an immigrant destination itself, with more and more migrants deciding or needing to stay in the country after failing to enter the United States. … Continue reading
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Eric Klinenberg
Bestselling author and public sociologist Eric Klinenberg, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present the Jane Jacobs Lecture at Boston College on November 5 at … Continue reading
Novelist Emily St. John Mandel
Boston College’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series, which seeks to engage students in exploring values and ethics related to health and healthcare practices, will host bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel on November 4 at 7 p.m. in the Heights … Continue reading
Strauss and Lessing
Assistant Professor of Political Science Hannes Kerber is editor of Leo Strauss, La dottrina essoterica: Saggi su Lessing, published by Edizioni ETS. The volume (translated to The Exoteric Doctorine: Essays on Lessing) is a collection of posthumous writings that shed new … Continue reading
Journalist Caitlin Dickerson on deportation
Caitlin Dickerson, an award-winning writer for The Atlantic, will speak on “Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity” at Boston College on October 29 at 7 p.m in Gasson 100. Dickerson won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the Livingston … Continue reading
‘The Second Estate’
In her new book, The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Boston College Law School Professor Ray Madoff explores what she sees as a central driver of economic inequality in the … Continue reading
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