Books
A select list of books by CMS/W faculty, lecturers, and alumni.
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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (2012)
“’As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.’ So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g.”
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The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy (2012)
In The Panic Virus, Mnookin interviews parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to task: How do we decide what the truth is?
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What’s Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (2011)
“Before the rise of Limbaugh and Beck, these broadcasters bucked the public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing coverage.”
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Riddle and Bind (2010)
Riddle & Bind is a book of poems to solve.
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture (2010)
Jing Wang’s “detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China.”
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist (2009)
In the courts and streets of London, Newton and Chaloner played out an epic game of cat and mouse.
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The Day We Found the Universe (2009)
Marcia Bartusiak’s “riveting and mesmerizing story behind the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.”
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We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009)
William Uricchio explores media and identity in the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations, and languages of contemporary Europe.
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (2009)
Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games.
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Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India (2008)
Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, Parmesh Shahani provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay.
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Bosston (2008)
Bosston completes Ed Barrett’s trilogy of Boston-based prose poem novels that includes Rub Out and Kevin White.
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Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media (2008)
“In this provocative book, Edward Schiappa argues that representational correctness is unproductive, antagonistic to audience research.”
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
“The most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I’ve read in a long time.”
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Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (2007)
“Seth Mnookin was given access never before granted to a reporter for this fascinating inside account of the Boston Red Sox.”
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006)
Henry Jenkins delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place as media converge.
