Ann Tashi Slater talked with poet and writer Maggie Smith about finding possibility in periods of upheaval, and the freedom of having your life implode. Smith is the best-selling author of poetry collections, including GOOD BONES, and a memoir, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL; her latest book, DEAR WRITER: PEP TALKS & PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR THE CREATIVE LIFE, explores creativity on the page and in life. https://tricycle.org/article/on-not-knowing-and-making-this-place-beautiful/?utm_campaign=00662834&utm_source=p3s4h3r3s

TRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9) has been selected as a September 2025 “Must Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, a nonfiction book club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink.

Jason Ward '92's short film 'The Motorcycle Man' is currently screening in film festivals nationally and internationally. Tristine Skyler '93 and Patrick McKee '92 served as executive producers.

Ann Tashi Slater’s new book, TRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9), is now available for pre-order!

Step into an immersive, ethereal sonic landscape as you listen to Once Upon a Dream, a collection of cinematic melodic synth tracks paying homage to 80s synthpop and sci-fi/fantasy films of the era like The NeverEnding Story, The Flight of the Navigator, and Labyrinth.

Ann Tashi Slater talked with Cooper about loss, grief, and the biggest question he's wrestling with now.

Gordon Schaye (acting name Grant Rivers) appeared in major music video with Suki Waterhouse "On this Love" filmed in LA in May.

How can we lean into the changes that life inevitably brings? In her latest conversation about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater talked with Katherine May about being prepared for change and finding new insight during times of transition.

There are two episodes of television that [Valerie Weiss] directed premiering this summer.

Following its theatrical run earlier this spring, the critically acclaimed feature film "Lavender Men" will be available on all VOD platforms starting June 17.

Daria Lavelle's debut novel, Aftertaste, a speculative literary journey through food, the Afterlife, and the New York culinary scene, comes out this month!

Based off the critically acclaimed play by Roger Q. Mason '08, the feature film "Lavender Men" will be released in NYC, LA, and DC theaters.

Sandwich generation mom here with an adult child on the autism spectrum and super-senior parents.

Tickets are now on sale for Chelsea Music Festival's 16th season titled "There's More to Tell: Swiss Trails Ahead" (June 20-28)

Sis Boom ‘Ah silk accessories are now available at the Princeton University Art Museum store.  These hand-made pure silk scarves, ties and pocket squares will be for sale at the Museum store’s on-campus tent during Princeton Reunions.

In day-to-day life, we often fall into well-worn grooves of perception, not noticing much of what’s around us. How can we see our everyday world in new ways?

Bethany, a panelist at this year’s ArtsX Fest, invites you to the Princeton Climate Storytellers’ Festival on April 10, hosted alongside the virtual Climate Storytellers’ Summit (4–6 PM ET). Attend the in-person watch party in Guyot Hall, followed by live author readings, the launch of Princeton Climate Stories magazine, and an evening of storytelling, networking, and refreshments.

Ari Satok '14 recently launched a poetry newsletter, through which he sends out one poem of his every week. The poems are nourishing. grounding, and good for the heart/ soul; lots of readers really appreciate receiving them.

Alumna Katie North ‘18 just co-produced her first Broadway show, Operation Mincemeat!

Correlations: Life+Work is a stunning monograph on multigenerational architecture studio Bentel & Bentel, highlighting their prominent buildings and interiors as well as each of the partners' personal histories, working methods, and artistic pursuits.

Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco, M.Ed. she/her/hers

translator, writer, poet

ABD PhD Candidate, Department of English

NO ARCHITECTURE is honored to be included on Architect’s Newspaper new list: the inaugural Twenty to Watch, which recognizes rising residential architecture design talent in New York.

Award-winning fiddler and roots artist Brittany Haas (Opens in a new window) has been announced as the recipient of the Eisenson Family Prize for American Roots Music, an endowed fund that allows an outstanding roots musician to visit Berklee each year.

The modernist architects known as the Harvard Five featured a Tiger, Landis Gores '39. A new film celebrates these interesting designers. Hilary Lewis '84 is also featured in the film.

In 1970, at the height of the sexual revolution, an idealistic academic couple and their 17-year-old daughter wrestle with revolutionary ideas around sex, race, and class. Available on Amazon, AppleTV & VOD.

A new book of personal essays from scholar Anne A. Cheng.
Kirkus Reviews: "Tenderly written essays form a beautifully intimate memoir.”

Freddy Blohm's performance at Cafe Improv Princeton on January 25 will be replaying "live" starting at 6pm each Tuesday and Saturday during February at Central New Jersey Network: cnjn (dot) org. He appears right AFTER the ballroom dancers, since he forgot to wear his blue suede shoes.

The Discipline of Inspiration, by Carey Wallace '96, is a book about the transcendent experiences we have around art—both creating and confronting it—the sense we get that we’re touching something beyond this world, and the possibility that those experiences aren’t just a mirage: they’re real encounters with God.

Gordon Square Review is a publication of Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio.

Al aka “Mifflin” Lowe’s picture book, DAD. THE MAN. THE MYTH THE LEGEND, was just published in Turkish, (cover seen here), in addition to Polish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian and English.