Anson Montgomery's lost manuscript for Escape from the Haunted Warehouse, originally slated for publication in 1997, was recently rediscovered and finally published, to the great satisfaction of Choose Your Own Adventure fans.
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Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies and Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies Alan Lelchuk’s new book, Searching for Wallenberg, explores “one of the great mysteries of our time: What really became of Raoul Wallenberg?"
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In “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 10, “a kind of twilight invites silence,” writes Thomas Powers.
[more]These are five “something like love” stories, each one shaded more or less by fear, nostalgia, illusion, obsession, and other murky emotions that so often accompany love. After all, who can ever put a finger on love? The five protagonists in this collection, although their backgrounds and circumstances differ, are young women with a certain temperament: sensitive, introspective, prone to “disquiet.” And this temperament is what primarily drives the stories.
[more]Drawing from my background in architecture, I have attempted to apply design sensibilities to the production of fiction. Conceptualized as a collection of three separate yet interconnected stories, my thesis – And Other Stories – investigates how different genres of fiction and writing styles, specifically, the short story, graphic novel and play, can interact to address a single story arc. Thematically, all three stories are tied by the thread of otherness, which is explored through relationships, location and questions of identity and belonging.
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