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Waiting for the Word
Among this year’s record-breaking 16,835 applicants to Brown is an anxious Midwestern blogger named Pete.
Monday, Bloody Monday
An exchange student becomes an unwitting witness to history.
A Comic in the Kitchen
Jessica Porter ’88 goes macrobiotic, with an occasional side of McHeartbreak.
All Life’s a Stage, and God Is in the Audience
Marilynne Robinson’s long-awaited second novel.
Second Opinion
Marilynne Robinson berates collective hypochondria, Flannery O’Connor, and industrialized culture.
Dirty Rotten Songwriter
David Yazbek ’82 heads back to Broadway with a musical based on the Steve Martin comedy.
Extreme Bird-Watching
In 1912, just out of Brown and newly wed, ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy hitched a ride on an Antarctica-bound whale ship to observe seabirds.
The Upside of Deflation
Graham Tanaka ’70: How technology’s gains are upending the economy
Solo on the High Seas
Joe Harris ’81: Sixteen days with gale-force winds and thirty-foot waves.
Out of the Office and Back to Grandmother’s Kitchen
Shermay Lee '97: Sometimes you just have to go with your genes.
Pride and Prejudice
Leroy F. Aarons ’55
Critic’s Corner
Since 1990, Andrea Stern ’88 has been taking family photos—of a hybrid sort.