David Grubbs explores the demands composers and musicians face when working collaboratively.

Writer and journalist Amy Waldman is writing a nonfiction book on the human relationship with snow.

Art historian Peter Christensen is working on a project that approaches dignity as fundamentally an issue of design.

Historian James N. Green traces the emergence of student-led mobilization efforts in the years preceding the fall of the Brazilian dictatorship.

Writer Mona Simpson is at work on several new novel ideas -- one of them about FDR's most trusted women.

Historian Nell Irvin Painter reflects on how her experiences living abroad have shaped her views on history and race.

Max K. Strassfeld challenges current scholarship tracing the origins of life-cycle rituals to rabbinic literature.

In his book project “A Wiser World,” Zachary Shore asks what history can teach us about making wise decisions.

Historian Michael Kimmage examins the origins of the war in Ukraine and its effects on global order.