A famed actor’s UChicago story unravels; and a new look for the Magazine comes together.

Doodling is the sincerest form of flattery.

Former White House chef Sam Kass, LAB’98, AB’04, is serving up new recipes and improvements to food policy. Plus: Kass’s recipe for brussels sprouts Caesar salad.

Reflections on the life and literature of Philip Roth, AM’55.

In dusty pages, pristine memories can live.

Questions for geologist Susan Kidwell on her work in the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, teaching students out in the field, and what artists and scientists share.

Handing down stories.

Challenge yourself with the toughest UChicago entrance exam.

A Chapin Hall study finds higher rates of youth homelessness than previously reported.

Winter on ice, past and present.

Pritzker student Shirlene Obuobi takes a comic approach to medical school.

The story of the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is one of science, of war, and of people—those who made the experiment a success, those who strove to inform the public about the threats the breakthrough posed, and those tending its ambivalent legacies today.