Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves
Charlie didn’t plan to adopt Rosie, a dragon he found at an animal shelter, but they just connected. Now they’re best friends. In this charming picture book by Lauren H. Kerstein, AB ’93, MSW ’95, Charlie and Rosie go swimming. And while swimming with a dragon can be challenging, nothing is impossible with your best friend by your side.
Lessons Learned
Stories of a Teacher and Teaching
This book is about lessons learned (both conferred and received) by a fictional protagonist, E. Randall Mann, who was a law teacher at a major law school for over fifty years. There are nine stories or chapters that comprise this book. The stories appear as written in the first person by Mann and a fictitious […]
Phillips wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Carl Phillips, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry for his collection “Wild is the Wind: Poems” (2018).
Lützeler to receive 2019 Friedrich Gundolf Prize
The German Academy for Language and Literature will award its 2019 Friedrich Gundolf Prizeto Paul Michael Lützeler, the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Cautionary Tale of Mr. Oliver Owl & Ruben Rabbit
The Cautionary Tale of Mr. Oliver Owl and Ruben Rabbit is the fable of an unlikely friendship between a young rabbit and a wise owl.
Justin Phillip Reed wins National Book Award for Poetry
Justin Phillip Reed, a 2015 graduate of the MFA Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry. The award is generally considered among the world’s most prestigious literary prizes.
Exceptional selections
The transformation of the John M. Olin Library provides a new home for the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. With more than 1,000 collections, the department is among academia’s largest and most diverse.
Frankenstein 200 years later
What can we learn from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein 200 years after it was published? A lot, insofar as the book’s central conflicts — between science and ethics, society and the other — still resonate today.
Breakfast with Ovid
John and Penelope Biggs met in Latin class. Six decades later, their love for classics is still going strong. In April, leading scholars from around the country will present their work as part of the Biggs Family Residency Reunion.
Phillip B. Williams wins Whiting Award
Poet Phillip B. Williams, a 2014 graduate of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is among 10 recipients of the 2017 Whiting Award.
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