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YOUNG ADULT

Raised in internment

Published Fall 2018

Young adult novel focuses on how global events irrevocably change young people already spinning in the tornadoes of adolescence / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Poetry

Literary excision

Published Fall 2018

In her seventh collection of poems, alum Elizabeth Spires uses words with sparing potency / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Talking with Dora Malech

Published Fall 2018

Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Guilherme Andreas

Music

Wherever the woodwind takes him

Published Fall 2018

Since Peabody alum Guilherme Andreas began playing flute when he was 12, he's been practicing, competing, and succeeding ever since / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Q+A

Speaking with Elizabeth Spires

Published Sept 4, 2018

In advance of her talk at the Ivy Bookshop this week, Spires discusses her newest poetry collection

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History

Race and rights

Published Aug 30, 2018

In her new book, 'Birthright Citizens,' historian Martha Jones explores slavery and freedom in antebellum Baltimore

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

Common read

An activist's history

Published Aug 29, 2018

First-year students read, discuss Jo Ann Gibson Robinson's memoir 'The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'

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

CONCERT

Thomas Dolby and the frontier of music

Published Aug 3, 2018

As his summer tour winds down, Thomas Dolby talks performing, composing, and his 35-year career as a musical pioneer

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Humanities Lab

Published July 26, 2018

Summer program deepens humanities research for CCBC, HBCU students