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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

Martin Schmidt (left) and Drew Daniel, of Matmos

Electronic Music

Matmos' new material

Published Summer 2019

With 'Plastic Anniversary,' musical duo experiments with a sonic vocabulary of manmade materials / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Peabody's danah bella charts a new course for dance education

Published Summer 2019

Peabody's new BFA Dance program turns traditional dance education on its head / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Doctors look at Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"

The human side of illness

Published Summer 2019

New app encourages medical professionals to look at fine art and examine questions of empathy and observation / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Group photo of actors in costume for Cabaret

Behind the scenes of 'Cabaret'

Published Summer 2019

For 100 years, the student-run Barnstormers has put on perfectly marvelous theater productions. But it's not all song and dance. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Opera

Caught stealing

Published Summer 2019

Composer Joel Puckett's opera The Fix details the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Green all over

Published Summer 2019

In 'Slime,' author Ruth Kassinger gives life-sustaining, omnipresent—and sometimes villainous—algae their long overdue star turn / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Nonfiction

Exploring the history of silence and film

Published Summer 2019

Meredith Ward explores what moviegoing has sounded like from the tumultuous days of the early silent cinema through the modern experience of watching media on a smartphone with earbuds in public / Johns Hopkins Magazine