New Works

Spring 2022
Never Forget

Never Forget

The Plum Trees by Victoria Shorr ’71, a beautiful and painful novel, is a tribute to those who survived and those who died in the death camps of the Holocaust. It is nothing like current events, yet it feels particular powerful at this moment in history.More
The cover of The People's Painter is a stylized illustration of Ben Shahn at work on a painting of a dove.

Showing and Telling About Social Justice

The People’s Painter , a picture book for young readers by Cynthia Yenkin Levinson ’67, tells the story of artist Ben Shahn and how he grew into his purpose of depicting injustice and activism.More
The cover of By the Book is an illustration depicting a young Black couple exchanging pages of a manuscript.

Freshink

Recent publications by Wellesley authorsMore