Pomfret: Through the Years Edited by Walter P. Hinchman ’55
Pomfret: Through the Years 300 Years of History of Pomfret, Connecticut, as Seen Through its People, Places, and Events Edited by Walter P. Hinchman ’55 The book includes narrative vignettes, documents and the history of Pomfret from the 1600s through today. Walter Hinchman, a former science faculty member at Pomfret School, is currently chair of the Town of Pomfret’s Tercentennial Committee. He served as Pomfret School’s archivist and is today the Town of Pomfret’s...
Read MoreI Am Radar, by Reif Larsen ’98
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen ’98 Penguin Press, February 2015 In 1975, a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists — who stage experimental art for people suffering under wartime sieges — Radar is forced to confront the true nature of his identity. Acclaimed novelist Reif Larsen delivers a triumph of storytelling at its most...
Read MoreThe Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving, by Lisa Miller ’84
The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving by Lisa Miller ’84 St. Martin’s Press, May 2015 In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health, and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality are healthier and happier into adulthood. Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Miller illustrates how...
Read MoreIrrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, by Emily Bingham ’83
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham ’83 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2015 Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families of the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In Louisville, New York and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with...
Read MoreDigging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity, by Adam Rosenblatt ’96
Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt ’96 Stanford University Press, March 2015 The mass graves from a long history of genocide, massacres and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across our planet’s surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers a window into this growing but little-understood...
Read MoreMarried Sex, by Jesse Kornbluth ’64
Married Sex by Jesse Kornbluth ’64 Open Road Media, August 2015 When a husband convinces his wife to join him in a tryst with another woman, there are unintended consequences, in this sharply observed, erotic tale about the challenges of modern marriage. As a divorce lawyer for Manhattan’s elite, David Greenfield is privy to the intimate, dirty details of failed marriages. He knows he’s lucky to be married to Blair. A Barnard dean and the mother of their college-age daughter, she is a woman he loves more today than he did when they tied the knot. Then seductive photographer Jean Coin...
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