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Arts+Culture
Memoir
A good life, with mistakes
Published Winter 2013
A reporter sits down for coffee and a chat with Daniel Menaker, A&S '65 (MA), former editor for The New Yorker. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Peabody
Dreams of the fallen
Published Winter 2013
Jake Runestad's new composition skips the bugles and tells an intimate story of life in the military. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Translation
The bug and the gaze
Published Winter 2013
The pressure's on when it comes to translating academic writing. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Behind the scenes
Creative endeavor
Published Winter 2013
Anthropologist Anand Pandian studies Tamil filmmaking to understand human creativity. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Nonfiction
Sights unseen
Published Winter 2013
Rosemary Mahoney's For the Benefit of Those Who See unmasks the reality of a sightless life. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Fiction
An ordinary life
Published Winter 2013
Alice McDermott's Someone follows an ordinary woman from her Brooklyn childhood through old age. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Political theory
Market irrationality
Published Winter 2013
William Connolly's The Fragility of Things wonders if rethinking the social roles of our jobs and lives might produce the changes we need. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Who is
Sayeed Choudhury
Published Winter 2013
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Collegiality
Published Winter 2013
Elisabeth Dahl, A&S '91, reflects on her collegial relationship with the late author Cort McMeel. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Premiere 'Night'
Pulitzer Prize-winning opera to air Friday on PBS
Published Dec 11, 2013 Video
'Silent Night,' written by Peabody faculty member Kevin Puts, tells story of WWI Christmas Eve truce