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His True Loves

Jonathan Karp ’86 left his job as editor-in-chief of Random House to launch his own imprint and stage his first play, about a timid bookstore clerk faced with saving the world.
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Music Like Movies

The cinematic grooves of Sasha Spielberg ’12
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Book Tour

A journalist gets to know writer David Foster Wallace, 12 years before his suicide.
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Wonder Woman

Angela Robinson ’92 left TV writing rooms to write and direct Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.
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Trivia Hunter

As head of research for The Crown, Annie Sulzberger ’04 wants to immerse you in the world of Queen Elizabeth II.
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A New Sitcom

Four Brown alums working on CBS's 9JKL show that no, you can't really go home again and expect it to be the same.
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Fresh Ink

A thriller in post-Soviet Cuba, inside LBJ's White House, and a debut novel set in Brooklyn.
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Richard Hambleton with of one of his paintings

Street Artist

Shadowman, the latest documentary from filmmaker Oren Jacoby ’77, chronicles a forgotten pioneer.
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Spines of three books

Fresh Ink

New books from Jacob M. Appel ’96, Sasha Polakow-Suransky ’01, and Rachel Z. Arndt ’10.
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The Pull of Place

Robin MacArthur's intimate connection to the land is a powerful influence in her lyrical first novel, Heart Spring Mountain.
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Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs

At Sundance

Among the 16 films in the U.S. Dramatic Competition held at the Sundance Film Festival in January, three were written and/or directed by alums.
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Image of Dhani Harrison ’01 in a black suit and white shirt, face partially obscured behind bright red flowers.

Here Comes the Son

The first solo album from Dhani Harrison ’01 is “an introspective trip.”
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Illustration of Andrew Sean Greer ’92

Two Alums Win Pulitzer

James Forman Jr. ’88 and Andrew Sean Greer ’92 took nonfiction and fiction
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Fresh Ink

New books by Blue Balliett ’78, Timothy J. Shannon ’86, and Steven Wallace ’83
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Tatyana-Marie Carlo ’20

Make Art

Brown-Trinity Rep MFA programs receive full tuition scholarships in the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Celebrating Coover

Literary luminaries gathered in April to toast Robert Coover’s 33 years at Brown.
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photo of Karyn Bryant ’90 covering UFC International Fight Week, 2017

Fight Club

Covering ultimate fighters and really cute dogs
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photo of Betsy West ’73, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Julie Cohen at Sundance

Notorious Doc

Documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsberg offers a glimpse into the justice's life
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Fresh Ink

New books by Rita Bullwinkel '11, Jessica Weisberg '06 and Natasha Zaretsky '96 AM, '03 PhD
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Image of a photo collage done by one of Carolyn Drake's subjects.

Subjects Become Artists

What happens when the people photographed are invited to alter the images?
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Movement as Medicine

An alum finds new joy helping folks with Parkinson’s master the dance floor
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Photo of Madeline Miller, perusing antiquities at New York's Metropolitan Museum.

Inner Life of a Goddess

Madeline Miller ’00, ’01 AM revisits the Circe story for the #MeToo era
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Catch a Wave

Jeff Zimbalist ’00 tracks Kelly Slater and his surfing buds from their Hawaii youth up into the pros
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Literary Leadership

Writer and editor Emily Nemens ’05 takes the helm at the Paris Review
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Photo of Meg Wolitzer ’81

Trying to Make Meaning

The 10th novel from Meg Wolitzer ’81 is her most political yet.
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Photo of John Krasinski ’02

What Office?

John Krasinski ’02 moves into uncharted territory
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Photo of Edisa Weeks ’87

Roots and Rites

Conceptual choreographer Edisa Weeks ’87
Medicine & Health
Photo of Caleigh Steele ’20 and her sister Lynden

Portraits of Love

A student uplifts women with cancer and their care teams
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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar ’14

Syrian Journeys

A debut novel inspired by present-day refugees
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Fresh Ink

New books by Eric Jay Dolin '83, Dawn Raffel '79 and Alan Stern '75 & David Grinspoon '82
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Still photo from RaMell Ross film

A Symphony of Moments

RaMell Ross’s documentary about a black community in the deep south.
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Fresh Ink

New books by Nathaniel Philbrick '78, Eric Klinenberg '93 and Robin Green '67.
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Photograph of Sophie Hawley-Weld ’14 and Tucker Halpern ’14

Fast Forward

Sofi Tukker takes the dance-pop world by storm
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Black and white photograph of Ottessa Moshfegh ’11 sitting at a table

Dark Day

A woman sleeps away a year of her life
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Photograph of Ken Biller ’86 with actor Geoffrey Rush (as Albert Einstein) on set

The Genius Series

Ken Biller ’86 tells the life stories of famous masterminds
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Photograph of Tim Blake Nelson ’86

Frontier Tales

Actor Tim Blake Nelson ’86 turns singing gunslinger
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photo Maria Manuela Goyanes '01 jumping up in the air

Mammoth Accomplishment

Maria Manuela Goyanes ’01 is the Woolly Mammoth’s new artistic director
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Gallery-goers experience audiovisual installation

Hardwired Wonderland

An audiovisual art installation explores synesthesia.
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Into the Abyss

Dark stories from author Ben Marcus ’91 MFA
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Fresh Ink

New books by William Powers '93, Shelley Jackson '94 MFA and Ann Ducille '91 PhD.
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portrait of Charlotte Silverman '22

A Freshman Oscar

Charlotte Silverman ’22, for Period. End of Sentence.
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Illustration of a woman lost in the woods

Far From All Fair Guidance

At dusk, a Puritan woman wakes up from a nap in the woods.
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Fresh Ink

New books by Lauren E. Oakes ’04, Katharine Smyth ’03 and Rowan Ricardo Phillips ’98 AM, ’03 PhD.
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Photograph of Marin Hinkle '88

Ma Maisel 

The roles keep coming for actress Marin Hinkle ’88
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Bergman: A Year in a Life

Film examines the life of director Ingmar Bergman
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A New Reality

The latest novel by Leni Zumas ’94 imagines the impact of restricted reproductive rights
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The Cartoonist

Enlivening investment banking reports
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Tumultuous Times

A new book chronicles higher education in the Sixties
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Dan Hernandez ’06 and Benji Samit ’06 standing in front of a Pokémon: Detective Pikachu poster

Bringing Pikachu to Life

How the beloved Pokémon got to the big screen
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Photograph of Jackie Sibblies Drury ’10 at a desk

4 Pulitzers!

A professor emeritus and 3 alumni take the top honor
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Big Game Hunting

One family’s passion for collecting Victorian table games
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Fresh Ink

New books by Kate Ascher '80, Thomas Mallon '73 and Monique Tello '95.
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Dystopia Calling

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, as retold on Hulu by Bruce Miller ’87, is having a moment.
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Fresh Ink

New books by Mark Mayer '06, Mathangi Subramanian '02 and Wendy Walker '89.
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Partners in Verse

Taking their spoken-word poetry around the world
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Grammy Award Winner

Violinist Lili Haydn '92 wins a Grammy
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The Accidental Director

A longtime Hollywood writer-producer takes his turn at the helm
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