Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter Brown

Capturing the American South

Photographs at the Addison Gallery of American Art 

by Nell Porter Brown

Mysterious Minis

Intricate mosaics shrouded in mystery

by Max J. Krupnick

At 75, Murray Dewart Reflects on His Career as a Sculptor

Thinking about what it means to be an artist through the years

by Isabel Mehta

Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Essential Educator for His Time

A life of Princeton’s Bill Bowen

by Howard Gardner

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

The Happy Warrior Redux

Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered

Off the Shelf

Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert