{"id":28709,"date":"2025-11-21T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=28709"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:24:02","slug":"books-fall-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/books-fall-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Transatlantic<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bimbola Akinbola \u201911.<\/b> Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women\u2019s Art <\/span><\/i>(Duke University Press, 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on the work of contemporary visual and performance artists, experimental filmmakers, and writers, Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition. Throughout the book, Akinbola examines how Nigerian diasporic women use contemporary performance, visual art, video art, and literature to contest and redefine their familial, cultural, and national belonging in Nigeria and its elsewheres.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this project, although I am theorizing about ways of seeing and being seen, intimacy, and community, I am also very much writing about seemingly insurmountable loneliness and alienation and what it means to sit with it, work with it, and attempt to transform it,\u201d Akinbola says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Touching<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marty Leistikow \u201967.<\/b> Touching History: One Family\u2019s Twentieth Century<\/span><\/i> (Leistikow, 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using firsthand accounts, Leistikow connects her family with important trends and events, with one chapter for each decade of the twentieth century. Macalester features heavily, with the alum unraveling tales about her experience on and off campus in the \u201960s, including humorous anecdotes about her debate partner, an inspiring lecture from Professor Yahya Armajani, and a sobering study away experience in Europe where she visited London and East Berlin. In later decades, Leistikow describes raising a herd of highland cattle, Mac\u2019s new mascot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Moore-Keish \u201919. <\/b>This Is My Wonderful Face<\/span><\/i> (Capstone Young Readers, 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every face tells a story, and our facial expressions are the words. In this picture book, young readers can explore all the different variations in facial features and learn to celebrate the diversity of beauty in every face. \u201cIn the end, I wanted to paint a picture of all the ways we can look, feel, sense, and connect,\u201d Moore-Keish says. \u201cAnd I wanted readers to feel it all in their own unique ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jens<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carlynn Trout \u201982 and Cora Trout \u201916.<\/b> Jens Jensen: Brushstrokes of a Landscape Architect <\/span><\/i>(The Clearing Folk School, 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mother-daughter project, \u201cthe book is meant to raise awareness about Jensen, an important landscape architect, environmentalist, and philosopher who in 1888 launched a new and sustainable direction for landscape architecture that was founded upon using mostly native plants rather than exotic imports.\u201d \u2013 Carlynn Trout \u201982<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Veilleux \u201999.<\/b> Open to Emotion: How Acknowledging, Understanding, and Regulating Your Feelings Can Improve Your Mental Health<\/span><\/i> (American Psychological Association, 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Veilleux\u2019s new book serves as a practical, engaging resource that offers a clearer understanding of the science of emotion and a helpful path forward in regulating emotions. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Open<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/b>A dramatic arts major at Mac, Veilleux is now a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Arkansas. \u201cI learned to lean into the discomfort of emotions via theater,\u201d Veilleux says. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve always loved about theater is that it can bring forth uncomfortable emotions, and people are willing to feel them because the feelings are about someone else. In therapy, we guide people to feel those feelings for themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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