Open Book

Selections and sneak peeks from new releases by faculty and alumni, paired with editor insights.

Corita Kent’s a man you can lean on (1966) plays with its medium: screenprints are not reversed in the making, but her image is.

Montage | July-August 2024

On Being “Printerly”

An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.

by Murray Whyte

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial

Montage | March-April 2022

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Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace

Julia Margaret Cameron, <i>Madonna and Two Children,</i> 1864, albumen print: artistically arranged&mdash;but could she control the expressions?

Montage | July-August 2015

Open Book: The Photographer’s Art

Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.

Montage | January-February 2015

Open Book: Rough Road for Capitalism

A critique of the neoliberal economy

<i>Puck&rsquo;</i>s view of putting the squeeze on wealthy trusts in the Teddy Roosevelt era

Montage | November-December 2014

Open Book: GOP Polarities

In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.

The Browser | May-June 2003

Open Book

Poet and literary figure John Hall Wheelock '08 (1886-1978) was an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons for 46 years, working with Hemingway...