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  • The cover of Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of te Heart by Rose Burgunder Styron '50 depcits and abstract sea and shoreline.

    What a Life!

    Fall 2023

    New Works

    Rose Burgunder Styron ’50 recounts a glamorous and adventurous life as a poet, activist, mother, and wife in her delightful memoir, Beyond This Harbor.

  • Freshink

    Summer 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Black and queer on Campus displays a photo of a walkway leading to a college building.

    Seeking Support at College

    Summer 2023

    New Works

    Michael P. Jeffries, Class of 1949 Chair in Ethics, Professor of American Studies, and Dean of Academic Affairs interviewed 65 Black LGBTQ+ students for his new book.

  • A small image of typewriter appears on a white cover displaying the title "Whistling in the Dark: Personal Essays."

    The Place of Words

    Summer 2023

    New Works

    In the 19 essays collected in Whistling in the Dark, Lucienne Schupf Bloch ’59 ruminates on family, dislocation, and belonging, on dying and becoming. Luckily for us, she has invited the reader along for the journey.

  • The cover of Pieces of Blue depicts a hut on the shore in Hawai'i with a palm tree towering over it.

    Rebuilding in Paradise

    Summer 2023

    New Works

    There’s such pleasure in diving into a novel set in a remote locale, especially a lush, tropical one. The reading experience can be akin to actual travel.

  • Freshink

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Alzheimer’s Fantasy in the Key of G by Kirsten Critz Levy ’74 shows a hazy photo of the backs of  four children who are looking into the distance.

    Voyage into an Alzheimer’s Brain

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    Alzheimer’s Fantasy in the Key of G by Kirsten Critz Levy ’74 is no traditional medical memoir. Levy embraces past, present, and future, mixing reality and imagination, to explore the confusing nature of her mother’s illness.

  • An all-text cover of this book by Jennifer Caplan '01 reads Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

    Jewish Courage and Comedy Across the Decades

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    The relationship between Judaism and humor has been analyzed extensively over the years, including by none other than Sigmund Freud. In the years since then, of course, Jewish humor has evolved dramatically. Just imagine what Freud would have made of Seinfeld or Broad City .

  • The cover of The Sweet Spot is an  illustration showing legs of a woman seated on the steps of a brownstone with a baby in a carrier at her side and glass of wine in front her her.

    Where Everybody Knows Your Name

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    What do you find when you cross one calculating entrepreneur, an overworked ceramist, a vengeful ex-wife, and an enterprising young woman in New York City? That would be The Sweet Spot —the eponymous bar where many paths cross in this sweet and funny look at the village it takes not only to raise a child, but also to navigate the pitfalls of success and failure.