Moscow, Interrupted
Julian Gonzales-Poirier ’23 talked to VPR about the scramble to end his study abroad experience and leave Moscow after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Stories
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Award-Winning Translation
Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, has won a PEN America Literary Award for poetry in translation.
Antler Boom
Every spring, shed hunters head to the woods looking for deer and elk antlers that may fetch thousands of dollars or social media fame.
Where the Cat Is Queen
Jessie Raymond ’90 waxes both lyrical and exasperated about the former barn cat that rules her house in her Addison Independent humor column.
Righteous Gemstones
Cassidy Freeman ’04 talks about playing a devoted, firearms-toting wife in a televangelist family on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.
French Connections
Growing up between two countries led to an interest in serving international students for Carol Lin, MAIEM ’18.
Pandemic-Era Dissertation
Rebecca Glasberg’s MA French ’15 dissertation charts new academic waters in examining representations of Jews and Jewishness in North African postcolonial French-language literature.
Taiwan-China Tensions
Chinese School attendee Bonnie Glaser offers her take on China-Taiwan relations and the potential impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the CBS News podcast Intelligence Matters.
Words of Undoing
Guernica magazine recently published a poem by Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07. You can read or listen to “Tenement” online.