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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.

In 1941, a bizarre series of murders occurred in a remote corner of the arctic. In his latest book, Millman explores what spurred the violence and the aftermath. At the same time Millman argues for the preservation of the natural world and asks if our culture’s humanity is being destroyed along with the planet. Bustle hailed the book as “a dark and twisted story of religion, violence, and lasting trauma, this true crime book is chilling in more ways than one.”

In his book In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City’s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis, Clifton Hood, AB ’76, describes the growth, influence and colorful lives of New York City’s aristocracy.

What does it mean to be atheist in America? Leigh Eric Schmidt, the Edward C. Mallinckrodt ­Distinguished University Professor at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, tells the history of American secularism in his book Village Atheists.