Arts & Culture

Works received

New books, music, films, or other works by Yale faculty, staff, and alumni.

Send your book, CD, app, or other work to Arts Editor, Yale Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven CT 06509; or e-mail a copy or link to yam@yale.edu.

Books

Peter Ahrensdorf ’80
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization
Cambridge University Press, $45

Erika Balfour ’93
Being an Empowered Patient: An Advocacy Guide
CreateSpace, $20.70

Mary Barr ’08PhD
Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
Chicago University Press, $30

Peter Binzen ’45 and Jonathan Binzen
Richardson Dilworth, Last of the Bare-Knuckled Aristocrats
Camino Books, $24.95

Susan Block ’77
The Bonono Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure
Gardner & Daughters, $16.69

Steven Brill ’72, ’75JD
America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix our Broken Healthcare System
Random House, $28

John Bronsteen ’01JD, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan S. Masur
Happiness and the Law
University of Chicago Press, $40

Ryan Craig ’94, ’99JD
College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Palgrave MacMillan Trade, $19.89

Nelson A. Denis ’80JD
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Nation Books, $28.99

Morris Dickstein ’67PhD
Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education
Liveright Publishing, $27.95

Bob Fiske ’52
Prosecutor, Defender, Counselor: The Memoirs of Robert B. Fiske Jr.
Smith/Kerr Associates, $27.95

Juliet Guichon ’81
The Right to Know One’s Origins: Assisted Human Reproduction and the Best Interests of Children
Academic and Scientific Publishers, $50

Jonathan Horn ’04
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
Scribner Books, $28

Devra Lehmann ’86
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker
namelos.com, $21.95

Jeffrey Lewis ’66
The Meritocracy Quartet
Haus Publishing, $19.95

Matt McCarthy ’03
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year
Crown Publishing, $27

Brian Mussumi ’87PhD
The Power at the End of the Economy
Duke University Press, $21.95

Andrew Pessin ’84 (as J. Jeffrey)
The Second Daughter
Winter Goose Publishing, $14.75

Juliet Pincus ’90MFA and Nichole Christian
Canvas Detroit
Wayne State University Press, $26.26

Lindsey Pollack ’96
Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders
Harper Business, $13.59

Renée Richards ’55
Spy Night & Other Memories: A Collection of Stories from Dick & Renée
Keith Publications, $23.76

George S. K. Rider ’55
The Rogue’s Road to Retirement
Skyhorse Publishing, $16.95

Adam Rothman ’93
Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Harvard University Press, $29.95

Bardwell L. Smith ’50, ’64PhD
Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving
Oxford University Press, $105

Marc Solomon ’89
Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
Fore Edge Books, $27.95

Jonathan Stone ’78
The Teller
Thomas & Mercer, $6

Barry Strauss ’79PhD
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination
Simon & Schuster, $27

Donna Thorland ’95
Mistress Firebrand: Renegades of American Revolution
NAL, $15

Judd Trichter ’96
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99

Noel Valis, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
The Labor of Longing: A Novella
Mainstreetrag.com, $12.95

Cornelia Veenendaal ’47
An Argument of Roots
BlazeVoX Books, $16

Edward J. Watts ’02PhD
The Final Pagan Generation
California University Press, $28.10

Jonathan A. Weiss ’60, ’63LLB, and Otis H. King
A Star Over Harlem
McNally Jackson, $24.95

Carol Weston ’78
Ava and Taco Cat
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $15.99

Kenji Yoshino ’96JD
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial
Crown Publishing, $19

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