RICHARD BABCOCK ’69
A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon
Regal House Publishing
What do a sheriff, an adulterer, and a murderer have in common? They are all running from something. Babcock’s latest novel is a suspenseful tale with striking characters who grapple with their morality and the consequences of past actions. The tale unfolds in the aftermath of a murder and culminates in a thrilling pursuit amid the rugged mountains of Nevada.
NANCY KRICORIAN ’82
The Burning Heart of the World
Red Hen Press
Kricorian, whose past work has explored the postgenocide Armenian diaspora experience, delves into the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese civil war. This novel is a heartfelt exploration of the personal and intergenerational impacts of war and displacement.
EMILY HODGSON ANDERSON ’98
Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life
Columbia University Press
A life lived with books offers lessons about loneliness and human connection, according to the author, an English professor at the University of Southern California. She puts writers such as Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Shakespeare into imagined conversations with writers such as Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Zadie Smith, and Dartmouth prof Alexander Chee to show how reading and writing can both isolate us and bring us closer together.
FAITH BARTER ’01
Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth- Century African American Literature
University of North Carolina Press
The author, a professor of English and Black studies at the University of Oregon, frames Black writers as architects of legal possibility in this thoughtful examination of the intersection between African American literature and law in 19th-century America. She uncovers the creative and incisive ways they approached an oppressive legal system.
BEN A. VAGLE ’22
Command of Commerce:
America’s Enduring Economic Power Advantage over China
Oxford University Press
Vagle developed his government honors thesis into a book, written with his advisor, government prof Stephen Brooks, that overturns conventional wisdom on how China’s economic power measures up to that of the United States.
