Doodling is the sincerest form of flattery.

Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.

The Magazine lists a selection of general interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.

Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.

To get outside himself, a writer takes up method acting.

The primary preoccupations of an unlikely political wife.

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.

English associate professor Adrienne Brown explores the complicated racial history of the American skyscraper.

College students go head-to-head in a competition for the best undergraduate book collection.

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

A UChicago professor spearheads an initiative to end mass incarceration.

Lights up on Thomas Christensenʼs Making and Meaning in the American Musical.