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An illustration envisioning a remade SAT test

Montage | September-October 2024

Beyond the SAT

Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs

A perfect match of poet and critic: Seamus Heaney and Helen Vendler at Sligo Town Hall for the Yeats International Summer School, 1987

Montage | September-October 2024

“Volts of Your Own Spirit”

Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.

Leaf shapes of some of the various species of maples (genus Acer) on a black background

Montage | September-October 2024

Cultivating Friendships with Trees

A monumental new guide to North American species

by Jonathan Shaw

Jeanne Gang’s organic Gilder Center, grafted into the American Museum of Natural History

Montage | September-October 2024

Off the Shelf

Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books

Collage of Chef Nisha Vora in the kitchen preparing a dish, a bowl of sticky coconut-milk-braised tofu over rice, and a plate of buttermilk-fried “chicken” with cornbread and dilly slaw.

Montage | September-October 2024

From Law Books to Cookbooks

Nisha Vora’s vegan journey

by Claire Zulkey

A black-and-white portrait of Tomi Adeyemi, alongside the covers of her novels "Children of Blood and Bone," "Children of Anguish and Anarchy," and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."

Montage | September-October 2024

Bringing the Magic

The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brooklyn Bridge Park: the beach at Main Street Park, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge

Montage | July-August 2024

A Democratic Landscape

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park

Barry Van Dusen’s watercolor of an Eastern bluebird, as described. by Henry David Thoreau

Montage | July-August 2024

Off the Shelf

Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books

Hudson in a baseball cap with her easel and paints at a rocky seaside

Montage | July-August 2024

A Leading en Plein Air Painter

Kathleen B Hudson ’09 captures the essence of the outdoors, from the Rocky Mountains to the beaches of Maui.

by Brandon Rosas

Madeline Benson singing at the piano, her face lit up on an otherwise dark stage

Montage | July-August 2024

Part of the Ensemble

Broadway music director Madeline Benson on art and collaboration

by Lydialyle Gibson

Corita Kent’s a man you can lean on (1966) plays with its medium: screenprints are not reversed in the making, but her image is.

Montage | July-August 2024

On Being “Printerly”

An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.

by Murray Whyte