RANDY BOYAGODA ’99
Boyagoda’s first novel for young readers, Little Sanctuary takes place in a Global South falling apart and wracked by war. Teenaged Sabel and her younger siblings are sent for safekeeping to a boarding school on a distant island. After discovering their guardians mean to do them harm, Sabel rallies the others and plots a dangerous escape. (Tradewind Books)
SYBIL CALVERLEY RAMPEN ’51
Rampen’s latest children’s book, The Story Club, is about Telmi, a Ukranian refuge who is befriended by Einsign, an eight-year-old Einstein in a school yard of squabbling children. Telmi is a storyteller, and by the end of the book the whole school has become a story club, even the class bully.
BURL HORNIACHEK ’98
To Heaven’s Rim: The Kingdom Poets Book of World Christian Poetry is an anthology of Christian poetry from around the world in English translation, from the beginning to 1800. The anthology aims to include all the major Christian poets from almost all the major world languages during this time period, in classic and new translations. Some of the new translations are by Rowan Williams, A.E. Stallings, Scott Cairns and Christopher Childers, among others. (Cascade Books)
TILOTTAMA RAJAN ’72
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, coedited with Daniel Whistler, is a collection of 22 essays organized by thinkers and topics, and connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophy to deconstruction and poststructuralism. (Palgrave Macmillan)
PATRICK QUINTON-BROWN ’14
In international relations and its study, the age of interventionism has come to an end. The dominant discourse today, as a series of ongoing crises suggest, is instead about defending sovereign borders, putting up walls, and respecting or realizing national identity. Intervention before Interventionism re-considers the meaning of intervention and non-intervention in international society, particularly in light of non-Western contestations of Western-dominated order since 1945. Quinton-Brown argues that the normative and institutionalized trajectories of intervention have been shaped fundamentally by encounters with the Global South or “Bandung Powers.” The dilemma of our present cannot be understood through the lens of cosmopolitan or liberal-solidarist duties. Recovering an anti-colonial and solidarist internationalism from the ashes of interventionism involves unlearning much of what we thought to be true. (Oxford University Press)
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