Alumni Essay
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What's in a keyword? Mark Athitakis, AB’95, turns a critical eye on how the Library of Congress and the New Yorker classify fiction.
Alex Lickerman, AB’88, MD’92, explains how to construct an indestructible self.
The pitfalls of writing, from a junior thesis to a Star Trek history.
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During the Cultural Revolution in China, my father was declared a traitor, and my mother was imprisoned by the Red Guards and repeatedly coerced to divorce him.
Mike Michaels, X’61, explains how he was a fly on the wall in the creation of the greatest song in the history of rock and roll.
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When Sadie Stein, AB’03, finally read the fourth installment in her favorite young-adult series, she was pleasantly surprised.
Nov–Dec/11
From our print archive: In an essay from 1950, Ed Diamond, AB’47, AM’49, explains how nature and its whims—including a pair of frozen glasses and the birth of a baby—almost “de-iced” the UChicago hockey team.