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Nonfiction

Review: 'Good Things Happen to People You Hate' by Rebecca Fishbein

Published Winter 2019

Rebecca Fishbein's collection of essays is hilarious and touching in equal measure / Johns Hopkins Magazine

'Tis the season in Stockholm

Published Dec 10, 2019

The spirit of Christmastime is fused with Nobel Week in Stockholm, with the Nobel Prize Museum in the city's heart the epicenter of much of the spectacle

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

A still from De Lo Mio portrays two sisters laying on a bed

Film

Finding common ground

Published Nov 19, 2019

Alum Diana Peralta's debut film, De Lo Mio, tackles issues of family, loss, and the immigrant experience

Multicultural affairs

Student performers brighten the stage at annual Culture Show

Published Nov 18, 2019

The showcase celebrates the diversity of the student body through traditional and contemporary performances

Lincoln the Euclid enthusiast and other great tales of math

Published Nov 13, 2019

In 'Republic of Numbers,' author and alum David Lindsay Roberts weaves eclectic and entertaining stories about math and mathematicians across two centuries of U.S. history

In memoriam

Longtime Writing Sems professor Stephen Dixon dies at 83

Published Nov 8, 2019

Dixon, who authored 17 novels and more than 500 short stories, remembered as a thoughtful, generous teacher who mentored countless accomplished writers

Mathematics

Hopkins mathematician Joel Spruck and a former student recently succeeded in proving a long-standing conjecture about the area of negatively curved spaces, such as flower petals or coral reefs, a yearslong endeavor full of unexpected hurdles and sleepless nights