Stealing from Dead Authors?
Esquire asked English professors Jay Parini and Rob Cohen to weigh in on the complicated ethics of posthumous publishing.
Stories
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Prize Poetry
Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.
Dance of the Nerds
Catch comedian and actor Alyssa Limperis ’12 starring as a kid version of Bill Gates in the short film The Launch.
Hoped and Changed
The debut novel of Vinson Cunningham, who matriculated with the class of 2006, has been called “a sophisticated bildungsroman” by Publishers Weekly and “a pleasure to follow” by Slate.
How to Teach Russian
Three members of the School of Russian faculty and staff had their book recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) for the best contribution to the study of Slavic linguistics or second language acquisition in 2023.
Global to Local, Professional to Personal
Lauren Markham ’05 reckons with the global migration crisis, the limits of journalism in addressing it, and her own family’s emigration from Greece in her new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.
Oscar-Worthy Work
Ben Kahn ’98 was the first assistant director on Past Lives, which currently has Oscar nominations for best picture and best original screenplay.
Apocalyptic Comedy
Baby Carl’s Happy Apocalypse, a podcast from the New Perennials project, takes a comedic approach to serious topics like climate change and socioeconomic inequality.
Language Immersion for Two
Chuck and Vanessa Nicholls both attended the School of Spanish this past summer, exchanging their home for a Milliken Hall suite and doing everything as a couple in Spanish.