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Go out walking in a winter Wunderland, by Jennifer Cody Epstein ’88 (Crown). Then warm up in the Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business, by Matt Lee and Ted Lee ’93 (Henry Holt and Co.).


No need to leave home to see Museum Malignancy: Tobacco Industry Sponsorship of the Arts, a digital exhibition by Alan Blum ’69 on the website of the University of Alabama’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. Malignancy may lead to Mortality, with Pronoun Shifts, by poet Don Colburn ’69 (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.).


Maybe you’re Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter, by Luke Fernandez ’87 and Susan J. Matt (Harvard University Press). Or perhaps you’re closer to where Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind, by Michael Robbins ’55 (Routledge). But soon you’ll be ready for The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority, by Robert P. Crease ’76 (W.W. Norton).


You’ll find Learning Is Natural, School Is Optional: The North Star Approach to Offering Teens a Head Start on Life, by Kenneth Danford ’88 (Golden Door Press). Then try Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern, 1996–2006, by Richard M. Freeland ’63 (University of Pennsylvania Press).


David L. Roll ’62 profiles George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (Dutton Caliber).


John E. Drabinski, the Charles Hamilton Houston ’15 Professor of Black Studies, guides you through Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (University of Minnesota Press). Or shoot for Guns in Law, edited by Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science; Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought; and Martha Merrill Umphrey, the Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government (University of Massachusetts Press).


Illustration by Cristina Spanò