Kennedy (Ken) Richardson ’71 reports that his debut novel, Sublime Dissonance (Vanguard Press, Feb. 26, 2026) just received a favorable review in this month’s issue of the Historical Novels Review (Issue 117, pp. 31-32, August 2026). Here is a link to the review.

The novel is about the lives of German and German-American musicians and how they navigated the wars and other social upheavals of the early 20th Century.