Zoloft, Lexapro, Wellbutrin — they’ve made us pills to get through wintertime. But Gregory Alan Isakov disagrees in the title track of his first record in five years: “Appaloosa Bones.” “They haven’t made no pill / To get us ’cross the wintertime / Tell time by the walls / Watch the shadows fall,” he sings. Isakov doesn’t really exist in...
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Professors’ Picks: Jonathan Gregg, assistant professor of education
“I and Thou,” Martin Buber – 1937 It’s a little bit philosophically dense and a bit difficult to work through, but it’s a beautiful description of how we relate to the world and of the importance of attending to the relationships in our lives. And not just relationships between people but relationships between things, relationships between us and God....
‘Hillsdale’ play makes New York City debut
Anton Chekhov never set a play in a Hillsdale frat house, but Michigan native and New York playwright Roman D’Ambrosio did last month in Manhattan when he staged a reading of “Hillsdale,” based on Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” The play, which takes place in the fictional house of a disbanded fraternity chapter, follows two former fraternity brothers, Michael and Bruno. The...
Professors’ Picks: Elizabeth Fredericks, associate professor of English
“I Dream a Highway,” Gillian Welch “Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin) called the album ‘a masterpiece of the infinite’ and the epically long closer, ‘I Dream a Highway’ epitomizes that praise in a poignant reflection on an individual life and art and America more broadly. When everything and everyone seems to have sold out and gone wrong, what’s a person...
