"By Fire, By Water,"  by Mitchell James Kaplan (Yale '79), will be published May 18, 2010 by Other Press (distributed by Random House). The historical novel deals with the turmoil in Spain at the end of the middle ages, leading up to the reconquest of the Islamic emirate of Granada, the expulsion of the Jews, and the discovery of the New World. See www.mitchelljameskaplan.com for more information.