Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

By Sara Marcus ’99 Harper Perennial, 2010

Sara Marcus pulls together the loose and distant strands of a cultural force that was part music scene, part movement. Vanity Fair says the book "is not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary ’90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement, which birthed the DIY feminist punk scene, but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man."

Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein

By Susan Goldman
Rubin ’59 Charlesbridge, 2011

By the time you read this short blurb, Susan Goldman Rubin will probably have written another book. The award-winning author has written 45 books for young people, many of them centered in the arts, some of them exploring Judaica, and some, like this title, both. Kirkus Review says Music Was It is an "impeccably researched and told biography."

Theater of the Avant-Garde: 1950-2000

Edited by Robert Knopf ’83 and Julia Listengarten Yale University Press, 2011

Socialist Devotees and Dissenters: Three Twentieth-Century Mongolian Leaders

Translated by Mary Rossabi ’60 National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka), 2011

The Orphan Sister

By Gwendolen Gross ’89 Gallery Books, 2011

Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

By Edith W. Clowes ’73 Cornell University Press, 2011

Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

Translated by Lee Ambrozy ’00 MIT Press, 2011

Eighth Sister
No More

By Paul Marthers ’82 Peter Lang Publishing, 2011

When We Were Strangers

By Pamela Schoenewaldt ’69 Harper Paperbacks,2011

Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

By Elizabeth D. Heineman ’85 University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

The Seamstress and the Wind

Translated by Rosalie Knecht ’06 New Directions, 2011

Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition

By Brian Britt ’86 Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011

Traffic Stop

By Janet Heller ’71 Finishing Line Press, 2011

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

By Lauri Ramey ’74 Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, An Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou

By Anne Burkus-Chasson ’74 Harvard University Press, 2010

American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White

By Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman ’91 University of California Press, 2010

John Woolman and the Affairs of Truth

Edited by James Proud ’53 Inner Light Books, 2010

The Women’s Warrior Society

By Lois Beardslee ’76 University of Arizona Press, 2008

Picture Postcards of Cambodia: 1900-1950

By Joel G. Montague ’56 White Lotus Press, 2008

The Lisps: Are We at the Movies?

Extropian Records, 2011

César Alvarez ’03 (vocals and guitar), Eric Farber (drum set and objects), Sammy Tunis ’02 (vocals, melodica, and percussion), and Lorenzo Wolff (bass and backup vocals)

Looking Up: Songs of Hope and Inspiration

Joan Kurland, 2008

Joan Kurland (piano) ’77

Forced Collapse: Consider the Weather a Failure

Holy Cheever Church Records, 2010

Liz Allbee (trumpet and electronics) and Christopher Riggs (guitar) ’07