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.

CDs

Gerald Cohen ’82
Sea of Reeds: Works for Clarinet and Chamber Ensemble
Navona Records, $14.99

Brendan Hughes ’04CDR
The Pizzicato Effect
brendanhughes.com, $6.93

Julia Wolfe ’86MusM
Music CD: Steel Hammer
Cantaloupe Music, $9.99

 

Books

Charles Affron ’63PhD and Mirella Jona Affron ’64PhD
Grand Opera: The Story of the Met
University of California Press, $45

Jessica Barnes ’04MEM
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
Duke University Press, $24.95

Eva Brann ’51MA, ’56PHD
Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It
Paul Dry Books, $35

George W. Bush ’68
41: A Portrait of My Father
Crown, $28

Robert Byran ’54BA, ’57BD
The Flying Parson of Labrador and the Real Story Behind Bert and I
Down East Books, $25.95

Stephen Cushman ’82PhD
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
University of North Carolina Press, $28

Frederick Rowe Davis ’01PhD
Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Yale University Press, $40

Raphael Brewster Folsom ’07PhD
The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Yale University Press, $50

Brandon L. Garrett ’97
Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations
Harvard University Press, $29.95

Laura Gehl ’99 and Tom Lichtenheld
One Big Pair of Underwear
Beach Lane Books, $26.95

Ginny Gilder ’80
Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
Beacon Press, $26.95

Gerald G. Hotchkiss ’52
Life Begins at Seventy
Sunstone Press, $18.95

Philip Huber ’59MCP
Return to Coronado
CreateSpace, $12.99

Sarah H. Jacoby ’96
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
Columbia University Press, $50

Dwight M. Kealy ’96MAR
Legal Concepts for Insurance Agent Ethics: How Agents Get Sued and Lose Their Licenses
Dwight M. Kealy, $12.56

Warren Lehrer ’80MFA
A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley
Goff Books, $34.95

Alan Light ’88
Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
Atria Books, $26

Sara Lipton ’91PhD
Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography
Metropolitan Books, $37

Charles Martin ’74BA, ’88PhD
Because of Algiers
QCC Art Gallery Press, $27.50

Catherine McNeur ’12PhD
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Harvard University Press, $29.95

Ellen Mickiewicz ’65PhD
No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders
Oxford University Press, $29.95

Hugh L. Moffett ’57MD
A Diffident Doctor
Two Harbors Press, $14.95

Kent Nelson ’65
The Spirit Bird: Stories
University of Pittsburgh Press, $24.95

Hannah Nordhaus ’90
American Ghost: The True Story of a Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
Harper, $25.99

Shannon K. O’Neil ’93
Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, United States and the Road Ahead
Oxford University Press, $21.95

Mark Polizzotti ’79 (translator) and Patrick Modiano
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
Yale University Press, $16

Catherine Price ’01
Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection
Penguin Press, $27.95

Lisa Reisman ’89
5 Months 10 Years 2 Hours
Outpost19, $16

Neil Rolde ’53
Breckinridge Long: American Eichmann???
Polar Bear & Company, $16.95

Sam Savage ’68, ’79PhD
It Will End with Us
Coffee House Press, $12.95

Ian Shapiro ’83PhD, ’87JD, Sterling Professor of Political Science, and Jane E. Calvert (editors)
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
Yale University Press, $18

Timothy Shriver ’81
Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
Sarah Crichton Books, $27

Naunihal Singh ’92
Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups
University of John Hopkins Press, $59.95

Victoria B. Stearns ’66Grd
Handbook for Piano Practice
William Parks Publishing, $9.95

Alastair Stewart ’70PhD
Somersaults in the Sand: Adventures in the Geological Mapping of Australia
Halstead Press, $29.95

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

Dennis Washburn ’91PhD
The Tale of Genji
Tuttle Publishing, $29.95

Garry Willis ’61PhD
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
Viking Adult, $27.95

Ben Yagoda ’75
The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
Riverhead Books, $27.95

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