Alumni Profiles
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
by Jennifer McFarl...
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
From Here to Timbuktu
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
by Nell Porter Brown
Stories for Change
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.
by Sanya Sagar
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
Guy Davenport
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
by Eric Allen Been
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür
“Kingmaker” to Gatekeeper
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
by Tara Wanda Merrigan
Believe It or Not!
From the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
by Niela Orr