Loewenstein wins NSF digital infrastructure grant
Joe Loewenstein, a professor of English and director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, all in Arts & Sciences, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $798,000 Human Networks and Data Science grant from the National Science Foundation.
The Odds
Poems
Suzanne Cleary’s The Odds is about chance: crazy luck, bad luck, about the luck of the draw, and what we make of that draw. Through arresting imagery and surprising turns, these narrative and contemplative poems examine the work of holding a job, of making art, of making sense of our historical moment. There is mortality […]
Arc of the Universe
A novel
How do you design a system of government from scratch when you’ve lost faith in government itself? Carrie Davenport, a renowned constitutional law professor, has the career opportunity of a lifetime. Project Mars, the brainchild of a billionaire tech tycoon, has ambitious plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars. And Project Mars selected […]
Maxwell installed as Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature
William J. Maxwell has been installed as the inaugural Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. A lecture and reception to celebrate his appointment were held recently in Whittemore House.
I Make Envy on Your Disco
A novel
It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a 37-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the […]
Violet is Blue
Amazon bestseller, Suburban Fiction Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She’s holding a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she befriends Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As […]
Mrozinski wins Calibre Essay Prize
Jeanette Mrozinski, a master of fine arts candidate in creative nonfiction in WashU’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize from the Australian Book Review.
Paradiso
The epic conclusion of Mary Jo Bang’s celebrated translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy
Writing without fear
Alumna Lydia Paar weaves together personal tales of the American workplace while holding up a mirror to class mobility.
Novel approach: Performance artist types Elkin’s ‘The Dick Gibson Show’ live on KWUR
As part of his “100 Novels Project,” performance artist Tim Youd is retyping, word for word, “The Dick Gibson Show,” Stanley Elkin’s novel about a late-night disc jockey, on KWUR, WashU’s student radio station. Assuming the role as overnight DJ himself, Youd will type until 5 a.m. every morning until May 1. This will be the 84th novel Youd has typed in full.
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