Arts+Culture
Fall 2014
Susan Elia MacNeal ’91 is the very contemporary author of the bestselling Maggie Hope mystery series. But beginning with Mr. Churchill’s Secretary , she has immersed herself in London during World War II.More
Fall 2014
Filled with frothy celebrity intel and dishy fashion-insider news, Hijacking the Runway by Teri Agins ’75 tells the story of how celebrity involvement in the fashion industry has evolved.More
Fall 2014
Dan Chiasson, profiled in “A Way of Words” (summer ’14), is just the latest in a long line of acclaimed poets teaching at Wellesley. Readers remind us that the line also includes Philip Booth and Richard Wilbur.More
Fall 2014
What is the future of the College library as e-books and digitization become more common? Whatever happens, Clapp will still house books—including the priceless core collection donated by founder Henry Durant.More
Fall 2014
The answer: This woman won more consecutive games than all but one person in Jeopardy! history. If you buzzed in with “Who is Julia Collins ’05,” you’d be right.More
Fall 2014
A high-school career-aptitude test predicted that Emilie Benes Brzezinski ’53 would become a mechanic—an idea less outlandish than it sounds. Though she has never worked on engines, the 82-year-old artist knows her way around power tools, including chain saws.More
Summer 2014
Senior lecturer in theatre studies Diego Arciniegas likes to “provoke students” by telling them acting is not a creative art. “Of course, the work involves extraordinary creativity,” he says, “but acting is an interpretive art…More
Summer 2014
In his research, Nicholas Rodenhouse, Frost Professor in Environmental Science and professor of biological sciences, focuses on how climate change is affecting migratory songbirds.More
Summer 2014
The name “Silicon Valley” conjures images of sprawling company campuses where employees are treated to round-the-clock food, foosball, and parties with endlessly flowing craft beer on tap. This seat of the technology industry, just south…More
Summer 2014
Maureen Footer ’78 knew she had found her design soul mate in George Stacey when she discovered they both owned similar commodes—18th-century French commodes to be precise, from the workshop of Pierre Migeon, cabinetmaker to Madame de Pompadour. To an interior designer like Footer—whose book on Stacey, George Stacey and the Creation of American Chic, was published by Rizzoli in April—such details matterMore