It’s back-to-school season, so begin In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools, by Keisha Lindsay ’92 (University of Illinois Press).
There, kids can meet Iver and Ellsworth, by author Casey W. Robinson ’96 and illustrator Melissa Larson (Ripple Grove Press); get a taste of The Cupcake Adventure, by Gus Karmack (anagram and pen name of Mark Gusack ’76) with Strika and Navos Karmack (MANX Enterprises); and finally Go to Sleep, Little Creep, by David Quinn ’82, illustrated by Ashley Spires (Crown Books for Young Readers).
Prefer a different kind of picture book? Look to Angelitos: A Graphic Novel, by Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture, and Santiago Cohen (Mad Creek Books).
Val Vinokur ’94 translates The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel (Northwestern University Press). For stories of real people, try Elizabeth Seton: American Saint, by Catherine O’Donnell ’89 (Cornell University Press), and Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House, by Victor Li ’00 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).
Roger Mills ’64 edited the notes of the late Bernard Witholt ’64 for 240 Beats per Minute: Life with an Unruly Heart (Greenleaf/River Grove). Steven A. Frankel ’64 and James A. Bourgeois provide Integrated Care for Complex Patients: A Narrative Medicine Approach (Springer).
Travelers can summon The Flight Attendant, by Chris Bohjalian ’82 (Doubleday), venture Beyond Cuban Waters: Africa, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global Imagination, by Paul Ryer ’89 (Vanderbilt University Press), and make it all the way to the Red Planet with The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job, by Emily Lakdawalla ’96 (Springer).