Books, Film, Music

December 15, 2020

Folk singer Mossy Kilcher ’66 has her regrets. Her life-changing time at Reed is not among them.

December 4, 2020

Prof. Victoria Fortuna wins award for “exceptionally deep” study of dance and political violence.

December 1, 2020

Target of censors, Robert Chesley ’65 celebrated sexuality amid a landscape of repression.

November 19, 2020

“Magisterial” study of gospel icon earns critical acclaim.

September 23, 2020

A graphic novel by François Vigneault ’13 imagines a future beset with new forms of oppression on the moons of Saturn.

May 6, 2020

How a ragtag bunch of skiers became the U.S. Army’s first alpine soldiers.

February 4, 2020

Will Laura Nix ’89 win an Oscar for her powerful new documentary?

December 12, 2019

In the latest book by Tamim Ansary ’70, he focuses on the narratives that unite civilizations.

December 4, 2019

With razor wit and trademark brio, Prof. Jan Mieszkowski takes on literature, philosophy, and the twitterverse.

December 3, 2019

Duncan Ryūken Williams ʾ91 uncovers the story of how Japanese-American Buddhist families survived imprisonment and fought for their freedom.

November 26, 2019

Explosive analysis of the 1967 race riots by Robert Shellow ’51 was suppressed by the White House and forgotten for 50 years. How does it look today?

November 29, 2019

A recent book celebrates the ideas and career of Prof. Steve Wasserstrom.

November 22, 2019

Acclaimed author Lise Funderburg ’82 spent years trying to make sense of her dad. In her new anthology she asks other writers to do the same.

September 30, 2019

Lauri Ramey ’73 offers a new history of African American poetry with far-reaching implications for the study of Anglophone literature