2018

Non-fiction book about the experiences of contemporary New England fur trappers, offering a compelling, if startling window through which to reconsider environmentalism
Beheld: The story of the Mayflower pilgrims told through the eyes of two women, Alice Bradford, a puritan, and Eleanor Billington, an indentured servant

From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts―and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.

On a Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts: A poem inspired by an anonymous marble portrait bust acquired on behalf on the Antiquarian Society in 1881

In the video above, James Arthur reads his poem “On a Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts,” which was written while he was a Jay and Deborah Last Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in January 2018. The poem was inspired by an anonymous marble portrait bust acquired on behalf on the Antiquarian Society in 1881.

Play inspired by the community of freed African-American slaves who lived freely in an abandoned British garrison in the West Florida territory following the end of the War of 1812
Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice, focusing on immigration

A violin concerto for violinist Jennifer Koh that premiered in January 2020 with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.