Features
All aflutter
Marcus Kronforst finds clues to evolutionary adaptation in butterfly wings.
Crossing the borders of time
Researching her mother’s story of wartime flight and lost love, journalist Leslie Maitland, AB’71, finds the truth richer and stranger than any fiction. Plus: “Internal Investigation.”
In vino veritas
Wine writer and restaurant critic Bill St. John, AM’77, AM’80, PhD’83, talks fear of wine and the scourge of ratings. Plus: “An embarrassment of riches.”
Reversal of fortune
William Browder, AB’85, was once the biggest capitalist in Russia. After his lawyer was tortured and died in jail, he became one of the Kremlin’s fiercest enemies.
Editor’s Notes
Children’s stories
The tales we tell about our parents, and they about us.
Letters
Readers sound off
Alumni and friends weigh in on the ethics and technics of astronomical skyscapes, how we die, religion and the law, the history of student life at Ida Noyes, and more.
On the Agenda
Promising prognosis
Kenneth S. Polonsky, executive vice president for medical affairs, defines the pillars that support the mission of the new Center for Care and Discovery.
Marketplace of Ideas
Shakespeare’s laws
A justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor.
Alumni Essays
My scarlet letter
Wayne Scott, AB’86, AM’89, knows from painful experience that an A is not a scarlet letter around here—an F is.
Awakened by a grave robbery
Greg Bellow, AB’66, AM’68, reclaims his acclaimed father, novelist Saul Bellow, X’39, from those who would adopt him as their own.
UChicago Journal
Proving ground
How Hyde Park’s idiosyncrasies enhanced an award-winning play.
Cognitive dissonance
At a conference on concussions, many questions and few answers.
Visionary leadership
Janice Guzon, ’14, will never see perfectly, but she’s focused on helping others.
Academe ease
Three alumni develop an online platform to streamline the path to publication.
Rainbow flags
American Jordan Long, AM’06, joins the European struggle for gay rights.
Sobriety tests
Harriet de Wit studies drug use in humans to better prevent and treat addiction.
Utility research
Emily Oster applies economic principles to all of life’s questions.
Colorful language
Surviving a Hyde Park screening of the Jackie Robinson biopic 42.
Elephant in the room
As the Institute of Politics o fficially opens, Republican leaders offer diagnoses for a wounded party.
Interview: Informed fearlessness
Architect Ann Beha retains the seminary building’s historic spirit and reshapes it for the future.
William Rainey Harper’s Index: Artistic flourish
The University invests in a new Arts Incubator in Washington Park.
Fig. 1: Stick figures
Chicago Booth statisticians do the math on the NHL’s overpaid or undervalued players.
Next generation: Circular answers
Chicago physicists tie vortexes into knots.
For the record: University news
A new physical sciences dean, reviewing the response to hospital protests, global leadership, and using data to solve social problems.
Citations: Faculty research
Researchers study how the mind multitasks, investigate the interplay between asthma and the common cold, scan the brains of incarcerated psychopaths, and see how sleep helps songbirds learn.
Peer review
Releases
The Magazine lists a selection of general-interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.
Notes
Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.
Deaths
University obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, board, and alumni obituaries.
Lite of the Mind
Game on
Test your knowledge of Scav Hunt—and the UChicago state of mind that defines the items—with our true or farce quiz.