Sketch Comedy
Jason Adam Katzenstein ’13—whose artwork appears throughout this issue—has been publishing his insightful, offbeat cartoons in The New Yorker since 2014.
Trenchant satire, silly setups, wry one-lin…
Author: Katie Aberbach
A Zoom of One’s Own
Wesleyan students and faculty offer personal accounts of the pains and perseverance that characterized the academic expe…
Socially Distant, Deeply Committed
The distance-learning transition has highlighted the importance of the behind-the-scenes work staff do to support students and faculty at Wesleyan.
Information Technology Services (ITS), for instance, was instrumen…
United in Action
Since its fall launch, nearly 300 colleges and universities nationwide have signed on to the principles of Wesle…
Cardinal Candidates in 2020
In addition to Bill Murphy '60, two other Wesleyan alumni also joined the race for president in 2019, each running campaigns to be the Democratic party’s nominee: Sen. Michael Bennet ’87, Hon. ’12, (D-Colo.), and John Hi…
No Place Like Home
Through archival photographs, maps, portraits, and drawings, a new book traces four centuries of Middletown history, foc…
Recommended Reading: Books by Barot ’92, Sokol ’93, Schneider ’97, and Others
Rick Barot ’92
The Galleons: Poems (Milkweed, 2020)
In his fourth collection of poetry, for which he won the 2020 Poet…
Running on Principle
With a strong background in civics and keen insight into the minds of younger voters, longtime educator William Murphy ’…
Lessons from Thoreau, Social-Distancing Pioneer (Sort Of)
Bob Pepperman Taylor ’80, P’06 brings a classic text into a contemporary light.
In his new book, Lessons fr…
A Meditation on Loss, Love, and Survival
[caption id="attachment_15757" align="alignleft" width="212"] Run Me to Earth, a novel by Paul Yoon ’02, brings Laos’s difficult history to light.[/caption]
While conducting research for his 2017 story collection, The…