Laura Rothenberg ’03 died with one great and needless fear: that she would be forgotten.

The Green was a sea of faces rising above a sea of mud. But the hard-earned joy was irrepressible as the 2,123 degree recipients slogged through the Van Wickle Gates.

Literary lion Robert Coover rid stories of their plodding attachment to linear narrative on a page. Now he and a former California skateboarder named Talan Memmott are using virtual reality to liberate literature from the two-dimensional world.

Most northerners think of slavery as something deeply southern that was ended by the righteous north. But as the debate over slavery reparations prompts institutions like Brown to reexamine their history, the business of enslaving Africans is showing up surprisingly close to home. 

A roundup of this year’s rowing season features students both present and past.

A subjective review of the year’s highs and lows.

Whatever happens to movie furniture after the cameras stop rolling?

By crafting paintings from snapshots, Isca Greenfield-Sanders ’00 brings together the worlds of computer geeks and painters.

Paula Vogel returns to the stage with a tribute to Thornton Wilder.

Erin McKeown takes her cues from Judy Garland and Elvis Costello.  

Diane Forley thinks learning the basics of botany can make you a better cook.

An American student, an Egyptian dreamer, and a rain of Saharan dust.

Two brothers sail down a Portuguese river—in a boat made of wine corks.

When best friends could be trusted not to tell all.

Chaplain David Ames 

Every May students throw away stuff a trash-picker can only dream of

The perils of having an opinion and writing it down

Members of the U.N. Security Council quietly convene on campus

Are exhausted medical residents a danger to their patients?

Baseball

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