鶹ҳ

Books, Film, Music

Form and Function

July 25, 2025

Form and Function

How Lydia Mead ’22 and Professor Barbara Tetenbaum built a book from a “long poem in prose.”

By Robin Tovey ’97

July 25, 2025

Professor Mónica López Lerma Calls “Action!” for Reed’s New Film & Media Studies Major

As the committee chair of the program, López Lerma is building a curriculum that is as interdisciplinary as it is international.


July 25, 2025

Auteure d’une Inversion Politique

Inside LIT 302 with Professor Catherine Witt.


June 1, 2024

Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls ’07 explores love, grief, and exile in her genre-bending graphic memoir.


March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of 鶹ҳ

President Bilger and Reed library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.

March 10, 2025

Life by 1,000 Tiny Pencil Strokes

Amy Reading ’98 highlights the remarkable life of The New Yorker's Katharine S. White in her book, The World She Edited.

March 7, 2025

How Bill Naito Reshaped Portland

As confidence in downtown crumbled, Naito stepped up as a civic leader and revived the city he called home.

March 6, 2025

A Repository of Human History

The D.C. alumni chapter recently visited head curator Leslie Overstreet ’71 at the Smithsonian’s Cullman rare book library to learn what clues lie within the materiality of books.

September 2, 2024

Season to Taste with Queer Forms

Elizabeth Blake ’04 explores desire, gratification, and embodiment in her first book.

December 2, 2024

Professor-Student Team Translate The Inheritor

Prof. Kate Bredeson and Thalia Wolff ’22 collaborated on the first English-language translation of the play about class inequality and access to higher education.

October 11, 2024

Eating a Moment

We visit a Bay Area Japanese izakaya, owned and operated by chef and author of the new Rintaro cookbook Sylvan Mishima Brackett ’98.

June 3, 2024

Reed Faculty Reflect on Recent Publications

Six professors discuss their recent works spanning the storied life of Buddha, the Soviet Jewish bookshelf, essays on the Qur'an and Islam, and more.

March 13, 2024

We Can’t Go Home Again

Biting and relatable, Kate Christensen’s latest novel grapples with midlife, trauma, and climate change.

March 8, 2024

Big Topics for Young Readers

The stories of British colonialism come to life in Prof. Natarajan’s Hear Our Voices.