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What does it really mean when people are viewed as bytes of data? Alum Kent Shaw, MFA ’03, explores this and other topics in this poetry collection.

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.

In ‘City on the Line,’ former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job — deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars — hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to […]

Jonathan Stein thinks only a bad heart can stop him from reaching the moon. But when he discovers his father may have been murdered to protect an appalling NASA secret, he must decide whether his moral compass still points toward the stars. Days before the Apollo 18 launch in 1974, Jonathan’s father, an Israeli astronaut at NASA, died of an apparent heart attack. A year before his own launch, in 2005, Jonathan, a typically devout skeptic, becomes captivated by the tale of a mysterious online conspiracy theorist who claims that his father had been killed. Unable to keep buried childhood suspicions from resurfacing, he reopens the case, digging into a past that becomes stranger and more compelling the deeper he goes. When his relentless pursuit of the truth leads to disturbing revelations about the Nazis who worked for NASA, the hardest questions to answer are the ones he must ask himself. The Astronaut’s Son was inspired by the true story of Nazi scientists and engineers at NASA.

After witnessing a hate crime, 17-year-old Leda Keogh must make tough choices about whether to protect her family or to tell the truth.

Trained as an economist, Michael Hutchins, AB ’78, uses modern bargaining theory to address one of the most fundamental questions of a democracy: How do we make shared decisions? Hutchins’ book offers a new perspective on understanding social decision making and the concept of freedom. 

Mike Bezemek, MFA ’08, reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel, Frankenstein, as a tale told in tweets.

Mike Bezemek, MFA ’08, re-tells Moby-Dick through texts in a hilarious re-imagining of the original Herman Melville novel.

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry, Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed, MFA’ 15, uses experimental language to explore big ideas of racial inequality, white supremacy and the dominant social order.

In this new literary history of early American veterans, Benjamin Cooper reveals how soldiers and sailors from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War demanded, through their writing, that their value as American citizens and authors be recognized.