Professor McCalla is reading...

The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
By: T. J. Clark

I read a lot of art history and criticism partly because I like it, and partly because art scholars seem able to write simultaneously for the professional and non-professional, something less common among music historians. Part of this, of course, is that the painting sits there while you look at it, and can be more …

Professor Denery is reading...

The Dunwich Horror and Others
By: The Dunwich Horror and Others

I imagine there comes a moment in everyone’s life when they think to themselves, “I need to read the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft.” For me, that moment came last April and after a surprisingly difficult time I managed to track down the three volumes of his collected stories, At the Mountains of Madness, Dagon …

Professor Yepes is reading...

Eyes to See Otherwise / Ojos de otro mirar (A bilingual selection)
By: Homero Aridjis, edited by Betty Ferber and George McWhirter

Eyes to See Otherwise is a careful selection that offers a precious panoramic view of Aridjis’ poetry in Spanish from 1960 to 2001, with English versions by thirteen well-known translators. It documents the spiral progression from the clean free verse of “Unfolded Eyes”, Aridjis first book in 1960, to the complex meditative tone of his …

Jonas Calderon is reading...

The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses
By: Jamie Ward

This book is an account about a fascinating condition, synesthesia, in which music can have color, words can have taste, and time and numbers float through space. Ward takes the most recent research and uses it to develop theories of why it is certain people’s experiences with the world is extremely different from the normal …