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Sam Fox School of Visual Arts alumna Julia Kuo, BFA ’07, illustrates this heartfelt book about the love between a granddaughter and her grandmother.

Baba Badji is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He came to America when he was eleven years old. He currently lives in St. Louis, but his permanent home is Senegal, where his extended family remains, and New York City.

Dan Blumenthal, AB ’94, examines the US’s thorny relationship with China, particularly in light of COVID-19, in this new book.

A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020 The funny, exuberant, inspiring antidote to body shame–a full-color graphic memoir celebrating the imperfections of the author’s female body in all its glory. Too tall. Too short. Too fat. Too thin. The message is everywhere–we need to pluck, wax, shrink, and hide ourselves, to not take […]

Exploring the lessons that life on Earth can teach us about coping with complexity, What Would Nature Do? offers timely options for civilization to reorganize for a safe and prosperous future.

Long-time Baltimore City school teacher Adam Schwartz, MFA ’98, has drawn inspiration from his students for his short story collection The Rest of the World. All of the stories are set in Baltimore and grapple with “who we are and the ideals we claim to aspire to,” Schwartz says. The teens and young adults that […]

Artist Marilynne Bradley has spent half a century immortalizing and updating treasures of St. Louis landmarks in the vibrant pigments of watercolor. This collection of local scenes, beautifully captured in paint, documents the pleasures of the good life in St. Louis—the applause of a good play, the sounds of music, the satisfaction of a gourmet […]

This family drama, airport thriller, and love story is sure to hold the reader in breathless suspense until the very last page.

“Probability and Statistics in the Physical Scienes” by Byron P. Roe offers a practical guide to the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics.

An epistolary history of postwar American art through the weird and wonderful mind of Peter Saul Painter Peter Saul (born 1934), considered one of the founding fathers of pop art but certainly not reducible to that movement, is best known for his cartoonish paintings in Day-Glo hues satirizing American culture. Saul was born and raised […]