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Illustration of O'Donnell
Literature
Prose of war
Published Spring 2020
Michael O'Donnell didn't return home from the Vietnam War. His poetry did. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Close-up of 'A Problem in Greek Ethics'
Classics
Libraries acquire rare copy of seminal 19th-century essay
Published Dec 5, 2019
'A Problem in Greek Ethics' by poet John Addington Symonds helped set the stage for the modern gay-rights movement
Ellen La Motte
Nursing
The 'literary high explosives' of Ellen La Motte's 'Backwash of War'
Published Summer 2019
The Hopkins alumna, overlooked in the Western canon, may have inspired generations of writers who followed her, including Hemingway, Remarque, Vonnegut, and Heller / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Etching of a scientist assembling a skeleton
#Frankenstein200
Two centuries of Frankenstein
Published Oct 29, 2018
Experts from Johns Hopkins discuss the issues raised by Mary Shelley's groundbreaking novel
Colson Whitehead
President's Reading Series
A writer's DNA
Published Sept 26, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead breaks down his influences, career
Rene Girard
Q+A
The mysterious nature of desire
Published Aug 8, 2018
Biographer Cynthia Haven examines the life of René Girard, who helped shape the humanities at Hopkins and around the world
Emily Dorffer
Literature
Discourse on (Dis)Ability
Published May 21, 2018
Emily Dorffer compiled and edited the '(Dis)Ability' anthology to encourage more accurate portrayals of disabled people in literature
Alice McDermott
Literature
Alice McDermott's notable novel
Published Nov 30, 2017
Author's eighth novel, 'The Ninth Hour,' among New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017
An image is projected on a screen showing a hilltop vineyard with a blue net cascading in the wind. In the lower left corner of the image, there is the silhouette of a man with thick glasses
ART
Teju Cole, on seeing
Published Nov 8, 2017
Author, 'New York Times Magazine' photography critic discusses vision, art in President's Reading Series talk
Tracy Smith stands at a podium and speaks
Turnbull Lecture
On the power and mystique of metaphor
Published Oct 25, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet laureate, visits Johns Hopkins