Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations
Title: Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations Year: 2008 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Fordham Urban Law Journal Issue: Volume 35, No. 4 Description: The state lethal injection protocols do not regulate lethal injections, but instead describe hypothetical rituals meant to reassure the reader—whomever that might be—that a controlled and orderly process, in […]
Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago
Title: Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago Year: 2002 Author: Leigh B. Bienen, Thomas J. O’Gorman Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 92, Issues 3-4, pp. 805-807 Description: On the assassination of Mayor Carter Harrison, the trial and failed use of the insanity defense, and execution of his assassin, […]
Was Einstein Wrong
Title: Was Einstein Wrong Year: 1971 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue: April 21, 1971, pp. 10-11 Description: Introductory essay to the work of Professor Robert H. Dicke in the Princeton Department of Physics from 1971. A Princeton professor challenges some established theories of gravity. FOR the past ten years, Professor Robert Dicke […]
The Young Scientists
Title:The Young Scientists Year: 1971 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue: Vol. 1, pp. 8-11 Description: A description of the work of four academics—Jason Morgan, Henry S. Horn, W. Todd Wipke, and Henry Arbarbanel—at Princeton University in 1971. Jason Morgan, Geophysics Our research cruise this summer from Panama to Acapulco and San […]
The Center of International Studies
Title: The Center of International Studies Year: 1970 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue: March 10, 1970, pp. 10-12 Description: An informal history of the Princeton University Center of International Studies. ALMOST twenty years have gone by since the Yale Institute of International Studies moved to Princeton and became the Center of […]
Notes Found in a Klein Bottle
Title: Notes Found in a Klein Bottle Year: 1970 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue: Apr 21, 1970, pp. 17-20 Description: In this short story about the glory days of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton in the 1920s, the author’s assertion that this history of Fine Hall and the mathematics department […]
Women and Men in Robert Falls’ 2666
Title: Women and Men in Robert Falls’ 2666 Year: 2016 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: HowRound Theatre Commons Issue: October 13, 2016 Description: Brief commentary upon the theatrical work ‘2666’. 2666 begins with four European literary critics hot on the trail of the elusive German author Benno von Archimboldi, a search into the dark heart of […]
Leigh Bienen Considers Adaptation in Chicago
Title: Leigh Bienen Considers Adaptation in Chicago Year: 2019 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Women in Theater Journal Online Issue: June 5, 2019 Description: Augie, Bellow, Frankenstein and Me. In 1964 I returned with my family from Kampala, Uganda, where we had lived for two years, and was hired by Saul Bellow to read, answer […]
The Record Keepers
Title: The Record Keepers Year: 2006 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 124, Intro, pp. 9-44 Description: Introductory essay to a group of papers presented at a conference based on the Chicago Historical Homicide Project database. I would not be here, now, sweating in the August humidity of 2005 writing this, with an […]
Technician
Title: Technician Year: 1998 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 104, Article 4, pp. 192-271 Description: A short novel about an unemployed young man from Trenton, New Jersey, who through a series of circumstances applies for and gets a newly-created job of execution technician with the State of New Jersey which focuses on […]