The Winner
A novel
The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.
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Society of Creatures Real and Magical
In the hopes of learning more about the local cryptids, three friends, Jenny, Emiko and Brian, start the Society of Creatures Real and Magical — S.C.R.A.M. Their first order of business? To meet a troll!
Winner’s circle
A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.
‘You think, so you can dance’
In “The Neuroscience of Movement,” dancer and research scientist Elinor Harrison introduces students to the complex neural processes that allow us to coordinate thought, action and perception.
Adare Brown wins Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.
The next generation of design
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, in collaboration with the McKelvey School of Engineering, will launch a new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology in fall 2025. Housed in Weil Hall, it will be the first STEM-designated graduate program situated within the Sam Fox School’s College of Art.
God Bless the Child
When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.
The Second Coming
A novel
Soaring, aching, full of revelation, “The Second Coming” by Garth Risk Hallberg (BA ’01) is an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?
Mother Doll
A Novel
Ferociously funny and deeply moving, “Mother Doll,” the second novel from Katya Apekina,
MFA ’11, forces us to look at how painful secrets stamp themselves from one generation to the next. It’s a family epic and a meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war.
The Emperor
(The French List)
A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti.
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