2017 Issue 1

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 has always seen things a little differently. When she recently met Abby Solomon, a 21-year-old with a rare genetic condition that prevents her from eating more than a few bites …

The stories behind the words: Poems from Gina Athena Ulysse ("I am a storm," from Because When God Is Too Busy) and Claudine Nash '92 ("The Problem with Loving Ghosts," from Parts per Trillion).   GI…

The College of Letters annual report for 1968–69 notes that Edgar Beckham taught COL 370: The Literature of Black Experience: “It was the first course in black studies offered by a black instructor.“ …

BY ANDREW FAUGHT SHAWN DOVE ’84: THE MINISTRY OF REVERSING THE TREND Twenty-one years ago, the Urban Institute think tank issued a report that highlighted 51 “promising” or “effective” programs that worked to i…

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 HYUNGSOO KIM ’02, MA’03 IS MAKING TIME ACCESSIBLE...AND FASHIONABLE The first time Hyungsoo Kim made a prototype watch for visually impaired people, it flopped. His first mistake was displ…

BY ERIC BUTTERMAN A U.S. Navy man, a customs inspector, even a cabbie—that’s a bio we can buy. But an acclaimed sci-fi novelist who didn’t publish his first book until after he had turned 50? Now that definitely sound…