Students & Alumni
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
by Jesse McCarthy
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
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
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