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Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army ranger Paul Scharre, BS ’01, MA ’06, discusses us what could happen when our advances in AI and technology are applied to weapons.

In his third novel, Oliver ­Loving, Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, writes about a town and family dealing with tragedy and hope in the aftermath of a school shooting.

Historian David F. Winkler updates his classic ‘Cold War at Sea’ and examines current day relations that the United States has with Russia and China at sea.

Barry Bergey, MA ’68, retired director of Folk and ­Traditional Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), shares the story of many of the NEA’s National ­Heritage Fellowship winners.

Questions arose after 1945, and have persisted, about the ownership of properties which had belonged to Jewish communities before the Second World War,  Holocaust victims and survivors, and Jewish expellees from the Middle East and North Africa. Studies of these properties have often focused on their symbolic values, their places in cultures of memory and […]

In her book Through a Long Absence, Joy ­Passanante AB ’69, writes about her father, Bart ­Passanante, AB ’35, MD ’39, and his experiences as a medic during World War II. Intrigued by a time that her parents rarely spoke about, ­Passanante uses her father’s journals and his extensive correspondence with his wife to recreate […]

In his new book, The Arena, Rafi Kohan, AB ’05, doesn’t overlook a single aspect of life in and around ­America’s shrines to sport: arenas and stadiums.

Ben Westhoff, AB ’99, former music editor for L.A. Weekly reveals fascinating details about the rise of West Coast hip hop.

Michael Bornstein, with his daughter, alumna Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, tells the story of how he survived Auschwitz as a child.

This otherworldly thriller from Sara Flannery Murphy, MFA ’09, follows the life of a medium working for the Elysian Society. Her job is to get possessed by the dead. When a hunky client shows up to communicate with his dead wife, Edie’s orderly, empty life gets upended.