Category: New Books

Carols Villa Worlds in Collision

New Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

This month, in recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the DePaul University Library highlights a few new publications from Asian American voices. Explore Asian American lives and experiences through art, fiction, memoir and history: View thirty-six works created by Filipino American artist Carlos Villa (1936-2013) in the

Unwind the Mind with Hidden Valley Road, Featured Title for February

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family presents the Galvin family, a married couple with twelve children. The oldest child was 20 years older than the youngest, with 10 boys and 2 girls. Eventually six of the sons would be diagnosed with schizophrenia.   Award-winning journalist Robert Kolker

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Reviewed by Susan Bazargan

Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread One of the first appearances of the word “misinformation” is in “Poverties Patience,” a lengthy poem Arthur Warren wrote while in debtors’ prison in 1604. Warren cautions his readers about shipwrecks caused by the “sweete” sonnets sung