Arts & Humanities

06.06.2014

Playing UChicago’s latest alternate reality game.

Spring/14

A new generation investigates art across centuries and continents.

05.16.2014

Author James Cambias, AB’88, discusses the underwater world of his debut novel, A Darkling Sea.

Summer/82

After years of obscurity, composer Philip Glass, AB'56, has found his audience. His works have won the acclaim of opera buffs and rock-and-roll fans alike.

May–June/14

Cloistered nuns tell their stories.

 
May–June/14

An excerpt from Maureen McLane’s This Blue.

May–June/14

Poet, critic, and scholar Maureen McLane ­argues for poetry that synthesizes, “with passion and knowledge,” what it means to be human.

May–June/14

Benjamin Recchie, AB’03, is the very model of a modern Gilbert and Sullivan Savoyaire.

May–June/14

Philosopher Jesse Prinz, PhD’97, trains a skeptical eye on biological accounts of our behavior, beliefs, and emotions.

May–June/14

Why does winning awards make books less popular?

May–June/14

Legendary photo editor John G. Morris, U-High’33, AB’37, reflects on his career in pictures.