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Rhapsody in blue

An acclaimed Renaissance choir takes up residence

Screen test

An actor and an author in search of Hart Crane

Textbook 2.0

John Gallaugher adopts rapid-response publishing

Law school dean named

Former Notre Dame professor will lead the law school

Notes from the field

Student researchers have their day

Have at it

Partisanship is good for us

Social network

For graduate students, a time and place to consider religion and culture

Search engine

Carroll School dean and author Andy Boynton on finding and tending the good ideas

From the O’Neill Library

Warzones

A star is made

There are 35,000 works of art on display in the Louvre Museum. How did one of them become the most famous on the planet?

Eyewitness

The complications, for historians, of Holocaust testimony

Summertime

A poem

Photograph by Alex Guittard

Home truths

Three memoirists of the family, on why and how they came to tell their difficult stories

by Suzanne Berne, Joan Wickersham, and Amy Boesky

Legal aid

When the Massachusetts legislature voted in 1966 to end the last all-out ban on contraceptives in the nation, it was with the approval and assistance of the Boston Archdiocese

by Seth Meehan

Along the Silk Road

An undergraduate’s solo journey overland from Istanbul to Kabul

Photographs by Alex Guittard ’11

Two roads

In public forums, Jesuit and parish clergy reflect on the priestly journey

by William Bole

Quotable

A strain on the priesthood

Mistaken identities

The theological shortcomings of left vs. right

by Mark Massa, SJ

Chemically dependent

Tracking the effects of childhood stress

Improviser

Reconstructive surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Patrick L. Basile, MD, ’97

"The startup," "Prince of a man," "Immersion," "The habit," "Thank you, Moses," "Portrait of the artist," "Book's mark"

Pilgrim’s progress