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John Freeman ’96 launched an eponymous literary journal in October. 

Interested in brushing up on your Latin this summer by reading medieval texts full of action, adventure, and theology?

A 1939 fashion statement gets its due.

Helen Fox ’94 seeks to save the world’s coral reefs

After a near-fatal car accident, Arthur Bryant ’76, wife Nancy Johnson, and son Wally spent an emotional four years recovering. 

Did you know that The Rolling Stones extorted millions of dollars from Bill Gates to market Windows 95?

Swarthmore’s mission is true in any language.

Staying afloat is one of life’s greatest challenges. Taken literally or metaphorically, I’ve found the solution: swimming.

Melissa Tier ’14, Swarthmore’s sustainability coordinator, keeps a copy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring on her shelf.

“The history of life on Earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the Earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight,” Carson wrote in words first published in 1962. 

Rebecca Louie ’99 pauses outside the door of a quiet cubicaled room and whispers, sotto voce, “This is where the magic happens.” She’s joking, but there’s something to the notion. Inside the cavernous shared writers’ space, Louie undergoes a magical transformation into the green goddess of blogging, The Compostess, and author of 2015’s Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living. Beyond, there is more wizardry.