Monthly Archive: May, 2019

May 30, 2019

Book Excerpt! Thomas Berry: A Biography (introduction)

“This is a book one has waited impatiently for: some of our finest environmental historians of religion telling the epic intellectual and human story of Thomas Berry. Most biographies illuminate the past, but this one helps chart the course for...

May 29, 2019

Thomas Berry and Columbia University: Reflections from Mary Evelyn Tucker, Columbia PhD 1985

“A tour de force biography: Thomas Berry was one of the most important thinkers on humanity and our trajectory on this wondrous living planet—and indeed in the journey of the universe. This is a book written with love and clarity...

May 28, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Worlds of Journalism, Think Public, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Worlds of Journalism Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe Edited by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer Think in Public A Public Books Reader Edited by Sharon...

May 27, 2019

Book Giveaway! Thomas Berry: A Biography

“A warm celebration of an environmentalist whose ideas are increasingly relevant.” ~Kirkus Reviews This week we are featuring Thomas Berry: A Biography, by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal. Check back throughout the week for a guest post and...

May 24, 2019

Resurrecting a Great Golden Age Poet

It’s the final day of Russian Literature Week. We’ve celebrated all week by sharing events and excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today’s we are sharing an excerpt from a compilation of Konstantin Batyushklov’s work. The final Russian Literature Week...

May 24, 2019

Dr. Karen Kinsell: Making Health Care Happen in the Deep South

Photo credit: Peter Wortsman The only MD in the entire county, tending to the health needs of some 3,600 people. Her patient pool includes many destitute individuals, some of whom cross state lines from nearby Alabama to seek care. Dr. Karen Kinsell ’93...

May 23, 2019

Translating the Untranslatable

Our second #TranslationThursday post brings you an excerpt from Between Dog and Wolf, a novel by Sahsa Sokolov. In honor of of Russian Literature Week, we have shared an excerpts from titles published in our Russian Library series. Russian Literature...

May 23, 2019

Iliazd’s Lost Modernist Masterpiece

All week we have been sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series in honor of Russian Literature Week. Today, for #TranslationThursday, we’re sharing two excerpts for your reading enjoyment. First up, we have an excerpt from Iliazd’s novel Rapture. If...

May 23, 2019

Dr. Davida Coady: Protecting Imperiled Populations

Photo credit: Peter Wortsman Following a long career devoted to the care of the world’s most vulnerable,including refugees, the homeless, and the incarcerated, Dr. Coady succumbed toovarian cancer in 2018. Davida Coady ’65 A Doctor Devoted to the Care of...

May 22, 2019

Linor Goralik Conjures the Everyday Absurd

It’s Russian Literature Week! All this week we are sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today we are sharing an excerpt from Linor Goralik’s collection Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria...

May 22, 2019

Dr. Story Musgrave: A Surgeon in Space

Photo: Courtesy of NASA At last count, Dr. Musgrave, age eighty-four, earned seven graduate degrees, flew on six NASA space missions, was awarded twenty honorary doctorates, operates a palm farm and a production company, serves as a landscape architect and concept artist with...

May 21, 2019

Platonov’s Response to Stalin’s Assault on the Soviet Peasantry

To continue our Russian Literature Week celebration, today we are sharing an excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Play by Andrei Platonov. If you are in Washington, DC, don’t miss The Man Who Couldn’t Die author Olga Slavnikova...