Laura Demanski

“What has amazed me is the extent to which people’s stories are grounded in their ability to negotiate the contradictions in their own lives.” Read about how Alphine Jefferson, AB’73, became an oral historian. mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanitie… @uchicagocollege @uchicagoalumni

Like if the Red Wings are breaking your heart.

On the cover of our Spring/26 issue, a gameified @UChicago quads. This issue of @UChicagoMag was beautifully edited by Susie Allen.

Also funny how much Dustin Hoffman looks like Dominique Labourier in Celine and Julie Go Boating

Watching Tootsie on TCM and it’s so witty. I forgot. Joke along the way about Strindberg in the Park. 😂

“No one has edited The Canterbury Tales with more care,” says Christina von Nolcken, associate professor of English, of Edith Rickert, PhD 1899. Rickert was a novelist, medievalist, and code breaker. She’s now the subject of a new biography by von Nolcken. bit.ly/4b4qSZi

Marc Rothko (1903 Daugavpils, Letonia - 1970 Nueva York).

20,000 roads I went down, down, down, and they all led me straight back home to you / Thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun.

Also: “If you think I’m going to give that kind of advance to someone whose last book is being used as trivets…” 😂

Omg the Anthony Powell reference in You’ve Got Mail (which I haven’t seen since before I read him).

Rhea!

@PureMichigan Happy to see Loui’s all over the replies! ❤️

Anyone know the best spot to get Detroit-style pizza? Need opinions.

What’s that little plant on our Winter/26 cover? “You might say it’s a sedge only an ecologist could love,” writes Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93. Read more about the unlikely plants found growing on slag in the Calumet region. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medici…

The Winter/26 issue is here, with stories about novel ecosystems, geoengineering, airline accessibility, game music, a Chaucer scholar and codebreaker, and much more. mag.uchicago.edu/issue/winter26

In New York in the 1920s and ’30s, journalist Gerri Major, PhB1915, was known as “Harlem’s Hostess" thanks to her legendary soirées that drew artists, writers and power brokers alike. Her signature cocktail, the Green Skirt, offers a taste of that world. ms.spr.ly/6013tsVOL

“I hate libraries! Only over the last six or seven months have I come to love and not hate the Regenstein.” See what people are saying about the Reg (avg. rating 4.5 stars) on Yelp. mag.uchicago.edu/university-new…

A really wonderful essay by @UChicago student Shiloh Miller.

Me: So if the Lions are out, who would you want to win, Packers or Bears? Dad: The Rams.

Our cup runneth over. @criterionchannl