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2010 Issue 2June 15, 2010September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Historical Consequences of Sibling Rivalry

In Lenin’s Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2010), Philip Pomper, William Armstrong Professor of History emeritus, tells the tragic story of Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant young scientist who joins a small group of student terrorists who plan to assassinate Russia’s Tsar…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009September 29, 2014

Conversations: A Remarkable Literary Debut

Author Wells Tower ’96 garnered rave reviews across the country for his first book, the short story collectionEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar Straus Giroux), when it was published in March. The book was fea…

2008 Issue 1January 20, 2008February 28, 2014

Heyday of the Studio Stars

IN 1933, film producer Samuel Goldwyn brought to Hollywood the beautiful and talented European actress Anna Sten in hopes that she would rival Greta Garbo, one of the greatest stars of her time. Sten made two films in 19…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007November 12, 2014

Scaling the Heights

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT BIG-NAME theater producers offer $2.5 million to stage a young artist’s first major show. But that’s exactly what happened to Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 and the creative team of In the Heights, a vibr…

2006 Issue 4December 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Clash of Identities

ON AUGUST 19,1991, IN CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AT 8:20 P.M., the police escorted the motorcade of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson (a Jewish religious leader) down President Street, heading west across Utica Aven…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Fighting For Equality

IN 1918, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TROOPS OF THE 369TH INFANTRY--also known as the Harlem Hell Fighters--staged a heroic five-day attack from Sept. 26 through Oct. 1 against the Germans in Sechault, France. Casualties among s…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Murder in the Cathedral

In the prologue to his novel The Go-Between, British author L. P. Hartley writes: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." For 20 years Jeff Rider, a noted scholar of French and medieval studies…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Q & A: Finding the Right Words

Fiction writer Matthew Sharpe joined the Wesleyan faculty in fall 2004 as assistant professor of English. He teaches creative writing and literature courses to undergraduates and has published three works of fiction. In …

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Projecting the Future

AFTER THE LIGHTS GO DOWN, the MGM lion roars on the movie screen. The names Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds appear one by one, superimposed on three open black umbrellas. Then the umbrellas turn around t…

2003 Issue 4August 4, 2003April 4, 2014

Q & A: Two Lives, Jennifer Finney Boylan

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan ’80 (Broadway Books, 2003) is the true story of a man who becomes a woman. Since early childhood, James Finney Boylan felt he was living in the wrong body,…