Lessons of Cancer and Flame
In a New York Times essay, Dan O’Brien ’96 draws parallels between the health fallout of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and of the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.
Stories
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Literature for Peace
Writer and journalist Lauren Markham ’05 is the nonfiction runner-up of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book A Map of Future Ruins.
Art Revelations
Artist Jordan Nassar ’07 questions the meanings given to ancient relics or historical crafts in a new exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery.
Landscape of Empty Coal Wagons
Alexandra Fuller ’99 recently opened Abandon, an art installation that explores the relationship between coal mining and the landscape in the American West.
Haunted by History
The novel Flashlight by Susan Choi has been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize.
Skills for Language Teachers
A new Language Schools master’s program offers participants a secondary teaching license in modern languages that’s valid for teaching grades 7–12 in U.S. public school systems.
Tree Food
In her new book, Feed Us with Trees, writer and environmental advocate Elspeth Hay ’07 invites readers to rediscover the nourishing relationship between people and nut trees.
Sing and Spiel
NPR sat down with several opera singers who honed their techniques auf Deutsch this summer at the School of German.
Lessons from a Music Agent
Conor Sheldon ’05 launched an independent booking agency for electronic musicians during the pandemic.