"Imagining the End" book cover
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Excerpt: “Imagining the End”


Jonathan Lear considers how mourning gives meaning to life.
New Humanities faculty members prepare for the year. Back row (start left) Jacobe Huet, A. E. Stevenson, and Robyn Schiff. Front row (start left) Katherine Buse, Mikayla Kelley, Thomas Pendlebury, Mehrnoush Soroush, and Melissa Baese-Berk.
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New faculty fall 2023


The Division of the Humanities introduces nine new faculty members.
Dean Deborah L. Nelson
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An interview with Dean Nelson


The new dean of the Humanities Division discusses her role.
Andy Warhol's silkscreen paintings of Mao Tse-tung, prompted by Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, blend communist propaganda and capitalist mass culture.
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You say you want a revolution


Michael Bourdaghs on how Cold War music ends up in unexpected places
Daily gives notes to Lauren Graham and other actors in the CBS sitcom "The Odd Couple."
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Quick takes


More from Bob Daily on his career as a screenwriter