Leonard Barkan on Berlin for Jews

Caroline Levine ’92 wins James Russell Lowell Prize for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

Leonard Barkan’s Berlin for Jews

The literature of madness and how it shaped modern psychiatry

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/voices-intercultural-communication

Babbling about Babel

Wendy Belcher’s and Michael Kleiner’s The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros wins translation prize

Hana Lethen '17 on the Language of Dance

Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

Small World by David Bellos

Sandra Bermann leads scholarly procession at Commencement

Froma Zeitlin Awarded Honorary Degree

Jesse Creed ’07 Running for Los Angeles City Council

Eduardo Lerro wins the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for 2016-17

At a spectacular formal soirée under the great dome of London's Victoria and Albert Museum last night, Boyd Tonkin awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for Fiction to The Vegetarian by Korean author Han Kang, translated by the amazing Deborah Smith. David Bellos was there to congratulate all the short-listed authors and, less…

Leon Grek wins Paul Mellon/Frank Brown Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize

Q&A: Wendy Belcher, on an Influential Woman

Princeton juniors Payton, Teehan awarded Truman Scholarship for public service

David Bellos was in London last week to help reduce the long list of thirteen contenders to six finalists for the only major literary prize that rewards translators and authors equally. The short list was announced today and can be read here…

COM interviews Zadie Smith for its 2015-2016 Lecture Series on Beauty and the Sacred.