Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Getting His Reps in

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s wildly profuse art

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Men Who Can’t Be Saved

Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity

by Stuart Miller

The Sound of Science

Composer and biophysicist Amir Bitran

by Nancy Walecki

The New Little Magazines

Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive

by Nancy Walecki

“The Wonder Out There”

Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir

by Nell Porter Brown

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. 

The Elephant in the Room

Conservative undergraduates’ campus debates

by Max J. Krupnick

In Defense of Liberal Arts

A semester abroad clarifies the value of the curriculum back home.

by Sofia Andrade

“This global, diverse, vibrant community”

Alumni Association President Ty Moore

by Nell Porter Brown