Alumni Features The Arts A Seminal Author Breaks Her Silence Palmares, the long-awaited novel by Gayl Jones ’73 AM, brings readers inside 17th-century Brazil and a colony of Africans who have escaped slavery Read More The Arts Less Rules. More Fun. Andrew Sean Greer ’92 blazed a path to the Pulitzer by breaking literary rules with protagonist Arthur Less. Now Less Is Lost—and readers are loving it. Politics & Law Family Matters Hard work. Personal responsibility. Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder ’74 aims to re-parent America the way his dad raised him. Filmmaking Reenvisioning Vietnam A Netflix film on the booming and enchanting country of today Student Life Bear Tales: The Black Horse Rides Roommates tackle a spectacular senior project The Arts Covid Memories A student creates art with medical instruments. Service & Advocacy Flight Plan Advocating for disability inclusion in space The Arts Fresh Ink for September–October 2023 Books by Jaime Green ’04, Tim Blake Nelson ’86, and Brianna Craft ’13. Science & Tech What’s Out There? David Grinspoon ’82 helps NASA investigate unexplained phenomena Service & Advocacy College Bound The Arts The Storyteller Bridget Stokes ’04 wins an Emmy for directing A Black Lady Sketch Show. Business & Entrepreneurship Running from the Bear Douglas Diamond ’75 compares bank runs to a bear encounter gone bad—flee and you’re f@#%ed. His analysis helped save the U.S. economy in 2008 and won him a Nobel Prize last year. Science & Tech Grand Design Is anatomy destiny? Education The College Problem Will Bunch ’81 examines the dismal state of higher education Business & Entrepreneurship Empowered Investing Venture capital for Latinx entrepreneurs
