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No Boundaries
A new cookbook by Rachel Yang ’00 takes Korean cuisine to unusual places. Check out her sweet & spicy sauce recipe.
Humanities & Culture
Interracial Dialogue
Natasha K. Warikoo ’95 examines two contrasting approaches to diversity: Brown's and Harvard's.
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What Would You Do?
Why did people help Germans slaughter their Jewish neighbors? It's complicated.
Humanities & Culture
Woman of Letters
Philosophy professor Felicia Nimue Ackerman writes to editors. A lot.
University News
A Diversity Milestone
The 2018 Black Alumni Reunion
Humanities & Culture
Breaking Down the Binary
Male? Female? How about neither, both, or something else entirely?
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Danger Zone
Alexandra Ulmer ’11: The reporting life in Venezuela
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Kids Cooking
A free app for kids offers recipes and adventures
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The 0.3 Percent
Brown's small but expanding community of students who are military veterans
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Go Ahead, Use Lard
A cookbook touts traditional "farm fats" in French cooking
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Mid-Century Maven
Professor Lynne Joyrich ’84 AM, ’90 PhD and her vintage collections
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The Glass Jackpot
Curating one of the biggest collections in a tiny field
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Fashion’s Scholar Editor
André Leon Talley AM ’73 headlines Ivy Film Fest
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The Art of Display
Brown’s extensive collections give an art history PhD student the opportunity to put curation theory into practice.
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Set in Stone
Undertaking a huge restoration project in the Philippines
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Big Game Hunting
One family’s passion for collecting Victorian table games
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Toilet Papers
A course on the history and science of human excrement is not a “gut.”
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Tomato, Tomatl, Nahuatl
Professor Iris Montero dives deep into the language of the Aztec
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Our One Percent Obsession
Why do so many of us spend our free time gaping at the super-rich on TV?
Humanities & Culture
Curated Cuisine
African American home cooking in the academy
Humanities & Culture
Public Enemy No. 1
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger ’03, publisher of the “failing New York Times"
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Rich But Nice
Sociologist Rachel Sherman ’91 on why 1-percenters need to see themselves as virtuous
Humanities & Culture
Magic Tricks
Want to study alchemy, witchcraft, or sorcery? The Hay library has you covered.
The Arts
Fresh Ink
New books by Mona Awad ’14 MFA, Art Markman ’88, and Tim Murphy ’91
Education
Radical Vision
Life, death, love, and humanity through the eyes of Toni Morrison.
The Arts
Fresh Ink
New books by Courtney Maum ’01, Louise Aronson ’86, and Lauren Acampora ’97
Humanities & Culture
Losers for the Win
A new book of essays looks at why we love Charlie Brown
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Whichever Way You Wear It
Brown Black Hairitage likes your style
Politics & Law
Hometown Advocate
The new mayor of Cambridge, Mass., fights to keep the city affordable
Humanities & Culture
America’s Quarantine Dad
John Krasinski ’01 curates reasons to smile
Humanities & Culture
Video-game Music
Five minutes with Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Mellon Gateway postdoctoral fellow in music.
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Leading Amid Unrest
A Twin Cities college president’s Day One was the week of the riots
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Rotten Culture
Why removing “bad apples” won’t fix the police
First Person
A Jamaican American in Paris
Six Questions for Makedah Hughes ’19
Humanities & Culture
A Language, Liberated
Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03 is a leader in the effort to bring the Wôpanâak language back.
Humanities & Culture
Walking the Labyrinth
For Heidi Kim ’87, combating racism is a lifelong practice deeply rooted in her Christian faith
Humanities & Culture
Love, Actually
A lit class examines love and desire through academic, intellectual, and deeply personal lenses.
Humanities & Culture
Everything Old Is New Again
Technology and new questions bring long-studied archaeological sites to life. By chad galts
Politics & Law
Capitalism on the Couch
A history course analyzes the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of our economic system.
The Arts
Celebrating Uyghur Culture
Silk Road Recipes: Parida’s Uyghur Cookbook
Politics & Law
Use of Force
A conversation about police reform with Chicago’s new deputy inspector general for public safety
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