SIR
A new book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips Is this who I must be,or maybe justwhat I am? “Sir” is an honorific, a title that indicates the superiority of its recipient, the subordination of its speaker. Carl Phillips’s SIR examines power and submission, abandon and restraint, whether in our personal, intimate […]
Das’ ‘Faith, Family and Flag’ wins book award
Joanna Dee Das, an associate professor of performing arts in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won the 2026 Book Award from the International Society for the Study of Musicals.
Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker
Now married 21 years, Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker are a literary power couple. Both serve in the English Department in WashU Arts & Sciences and run Dorothy, a publishing project, a small feminist press they founded in 2009. They also are writers themselves.
WashU librarians pick favorite books for National Book Lover’s Day
In honor of National Book Lover’s Day, celebrated annually on Aug. 9, the Record asked librarians to share some of their favorite titles. The result: a tour de force by a WashU alumna, a sweeping epic of German history and one of the globe’s most beloved fantasy novels. All of these titles are available at Olin Library.
99 Problems Finding the 1
a love story (sort of)
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, professor and punk musician G’Ra Asim tackles chronic lovelessness in the post-covid era with heft and humor.
House of Teeth
Gritty, redemptive third installment in contemporary series explores intricacies of small-town American life.
The Au Pair
A novel
Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children—and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal […]
The lessons of the elders
Alumnus Jason Green, AB ’03, went back home to Maryland to sit, to listen, to learn. Ultimately, he discovered what is ‘too precious to lose.’
Nothing North of Delmar
A novel
A novel of one young woman’s post-college foray into the adult realities of landlords, economics and urban politics in the Bicentennial summer of 1976.
The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey
Poems
In this book of poetry, Alex Mouw, MA ’20, PhD ’25, confronts religious devotion as something to grasp and something that seizes.
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