Arts & Culture

Gritty, redemptive third installment in contemporary series explores intricacies of small-town American life.

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 […]

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.

In this book of poetry, Alex Mouw, MA ’20, PhD ’25, confronts religious devotion as something to grasp and something that seizes.

Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, was 9 when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were “stifling his creativity.” Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family’s living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to […]

A warm and funny family story that will have kids rooting for Ping-Ping — a girl who is ready to kick all the assumptions made about her aside.

Training in Charity captures what it meant to begin a life in medicine before computers and technology softened the edges-a time when skill was learned by doing, compassion was earned at the bedside, and the making of a doctor was as raw and real as the city that held him.