Archive for January 2009
LibGuides – a new thing for spring!
Posted by: asclibrarian on: January 30, 2009
The library recently added LibGuides, interactive subject and course specific guides. The guides offer suggestions about how and where to start your research. You may leave comments, instant message a librarian, or make a research appointment. So far, we have 22 guides in over 20 subjects, and we’re adding new ones all the time. If [...]
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New York Times Book Review
- Stephen King’s Glass MenagerieWhen an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.
- The Critic’s CriticA valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.
- Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and IdolsThis novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
- Animal PlanetAmy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.
- Happy DaysAn argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.
