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Visual Arts Highlights Yukiyo Kawano is a third generation atomic-bomb survivor who examines that legacy by doing installation work that includes a large-scale fabric replica of the Fat Man/Little Boy nuclear bombs dropped on Japan.  When the...

In the introduction to his essay collection, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Geoff Dyer writes: “I virtually never read newspapers or magazines. If I see a piece by a writer I admire in a paper I very rarely read it; but as I skim through catalogs...

A note from Kirsten Legg Head of the OKA The Old Kingsmeadian Association (OKA) has hardly drawn breath between functions this year. In the first term, we held a very successful Bridge Drive in the Lange Hall. Amazing prizes were donated for this event...

Sundays may be a “wan, stuff shadow of a robust Saturday” or a day of “forced leisure for folks who have no aptitude for leisure,” but a weekend is still a weekend. The pleasure of a Friday night, the knowing the burdens of work week have a brief respite...

“Fear is the first natural enemy a man must overcome on his path to knowledge.” —Don Juan In Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical Great American Novel On the Road (1957), Carlo Marx confides to Sal Paradise (Kerouac) that he is worried about what the future...