Books, Film, Music

November 24, 2025

Into the Infinite

How Bill Witherspoon ’65 immortalized his desert journeys.

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson

December 1, 2025

How to Thrive in Wild Times

According to cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis ’02, the one thing we really need? Each other.

July 25, 2025

Form and Function

How Lydia Mead ’22 and Professor Barbara Tetenbaum built a book from a “long poem in prose.”

July 25, 2025

Professor Mónica López Lerma Calls “Action!” for Reed’s New Film & Media Studies Major

As the committee chair of the program, López Lerma is building a curriculum that is as interdisciplinary as it is international.

July 25, 2025

Auteure d’une Inversion Politique

Inside LIT 302 with Professor Catherine Witt.

June 1, 2024

Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls ’07 explores love, grief, and exile in her genre-bending graphic memoir.

March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of Reed College

President Bilger and Reed library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.

March 10, 2025

Life by 1,000 Tiny Pencil Strokes

Amy Reading ’98 highlights the remarkable life of The New Yorker's Katharine S. White in her book, The World She Edited.

March 7, 2025

How Bill Naito Reshaped Portland

As confidence in downtown crumbled, Naito stepped up as a civic leader and revived the city he called home.

March 6, 2025

A Repository of Human History

The D.C. alumni chapter recently visited head curator Leslie Overstreet ’71 at the Smithsonian’s Cullman rare book library to learn what clues lie within the materiality of books.

September 2, 2024

Season to Taste with Queer Forms

Elizabeth Blake ’04 explores desire, gratification, and embodiment in her first book.

December 2, 2024

Professor-Student Team Translate The Inheritor

Prof. Kate Bredeson and Thalia Wolff ’22 collaborated on the first English-language translation of the play about class inequality and access to higher education.