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  • 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.

  • Freshink

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Super Sad Black Girl features a close-up of a woman's face in a stylized painting.

    Art from a Place of Darkness

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    Diamond Sharp ’11 knew from a pretty young age that she was going to be a writer. As a senior at Wellesley she began to write some of the poems in this debut volume, much of which deals with Sharp’s coming to terms with, and treating, her mental illness.

  • The cover of The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve features a striking black-and-white portrait of its subject as a young woman.

    A Complicated Legacy

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve , a new biography by Nancy Woloch ’61, takes the life of a little-known, complex, and often obstreperous woman and makes it into a riveting story.

  • The cover of Formidable show a photo of a group of Black and white women at a demontration, led by member of congress Bella Abzug.

    Capturing a Century of Success and Struggle

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    In Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920–2020 , Elisabeth Griffith ’69 undertakes the daunting task of documenting a century of women’s activist history in the United States.

  • Freshink

    Fall 2022

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors