Loneliness vs. Solitude
Americans are spending more of their time alone, but that doesn’t mean an impending national epidemic of loneliness.
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Is Corporate Atonement Possible?
Language Schools attendee Sarah Federman writes in the Conversation about how corporations involved in historical atrocities have reckoned—for better or worse—with that history.
Why Zeitgeist
Hear from Ryan McElroy ’25, editor in chief of The Middlebury Campus, about the rationale and methodology behind the annual Zeitgeist survey.
Family Comes First
The New York Times Lifestyle section featured George Arison ’00 and his husband, Robert Luo, who have embraced domestic life with their “twiblings” while balancing rigorous professions.
Expanded Community Arts
Town Hall Theater in Middlebury has launched new programming and performances in its newly constructed wing.
Drone’s Eye View
Jon Roth ’85 took inspiration from several decades of experience as a software engineer to write his debut novel, Birch, Mind of the Dragonflies.
Too Busy Blurbing Books
For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job.
Skating Senator
Vermont State Senator Brian Collamore ’72 wrangles legislation by day and hockey players by night.
Brazen Writings
Jeff “J.T.” Price ’01 is the editor in chief of the literary magazine Brazenhead Review, which originated out of an illegal secondhand bookstore run out of an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment.