Recent Articles
My cover story on two Chicago titans facing down financial inequity.
Mellody Hobson ’91 and John W. Rogers Jr. ’80 are using their clout to pressure corporate America and help minority groups grow wealth.
A Q and A with Portuguese jewelry artist Patricia Domingues.
Patricia Domingues works with natural and artificial gemstones in a highly original way.
A glittering night at the opening of MAD About Jewelry.
The Museum of Arts and Design hosts its annual pop-up sale of contemporary jewelry.
A feature story on what it's like to flee Ukraine and Russia and come to the States.
Six months before Oksana Nesterenko arrived as a visiting scholar at Princeton, she was awakened in the night at her father’s apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by the explosions of Russian missiles.
A Dutch artist tells a story with her jewelry.
The luminous colors of Beppe Kessler’s jewelry are often paired with ordinary materials — such as elm seeds or pieces of wood — to form pieces that have an ethereal quality.
A provocative jewelry exhibit tackles the hot-button issue of guns.
Making inventive use of materials such as paraffin wax, plastic foam, and twigs, de Jong has created jewelry and objects in the shape of guns that express her shock and outrage over the prevalence of gun violence in the United States.
A cover story on how students with disabilities navigate college life.
As Naomi Hess ’22 moves through Princeton’s campus in her electric wheelchair, she zips by buildings she can enter and those she cannot.
Married couples with podcasts are bracingly honest, in The New York Times.
Gambling, infidelity, moving away from a shared religious faith. These topics, once hidden behind closed doors, are now discussed openly as couples choose to broadcast their relationships on podcasts.
Despite the wedding, these pairs live thousands of miles apart, in The New York Times.
Ian Derrer and Daniel James were married in August 2019 in the garden room of a restaurant in Santa Fe, N.M., with each of their 19 guests reading aloud lyrics to the couple’s favorite Stephen Sondheim love songs.
Building the first stadium for a U.S. National Women’s Soccer League team.
Chris and Angie Long, both members of the Class of ’97, have always loved sports.
Marcus Brody explains how your snacks get from the lab to the grocery shelf.
Marcus Brody ‘92 spends his days figuring out how to create foods: A cracker made from legumes. A plant-based cheese. A beverage for those with swallowing disorders.
Edmund White blazed a trail in gay literature.
Edmund White, professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton, has been called the godfather of gay American literature.
Classical pianist celebrates underrepresented composers.
Donna Weng Friedman ’80 was walking her dog through Manhattan’s Central Park in March 2020 when a man began yelling at her.
A novelist conjures magical worlds with her prose.
Sarah Beth Durst ’96 began writing stories full of dragons and unicorns at the age of 10.
A cover story on learning to see failure as a normal part of life.
In the spring of his senior year, Russell Dinkins ’13 put on a brave face to hide something from his friends: He would not be receiving his degree because he had not finished his thesis.
One-Liners and Dialogue That ‘Lets It Rip’.
For Jonathan Glatzer ’91, the thrill of a career spent writing for television and film has been “slipping into a character’s shoes and having words come out of their mouth that you would never say. There’s something cathartic about that,” he says.
An interview with scholar Eddie Glaude on James Baldwin and racism.
This spring, as the nation erupted in protests over systemic racism, Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. *97 felt that the country “was at a crossroads,” he says.
A profile of the tech entrepreneur behind SwearBy.
Kate Foster Lengyel ’99 and Roger Lengyel ’99 like to toss business ideas back and forth, Shark Tank–style. “Roger would say I had a lot of cockamamie ideas,” says Foster Lengyel, who has been married to him since 2004.
A medical student who is helping healthcare workers cope with the pandemic.
As the novel coronavirus swept through the country in March, medical student Sara Lederman ’12 and a classmate brainstormed ways to help their community in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
A cover story on millennials who have wealth - and don’t want it.
At 22, Kate Poole ’09 was a radical. She had lived on a commune in Thailand, joined protesters on the first day of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, and was a member of a nonprofit in West Philadelphia that focused on social justice.
An interview with novelist A.M. Homes.
When novelist A.M. Homes was a child, she waited in the back seat of the family car on Saturday afternoons while her mother and grandmother had their hair done and listened to the broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera.
A travel piece on the echoes of past Jewish life -- and its revival -- in Spain.
A steep climb through the medieval streets of Girona, in the northeast of Spain’s Catalonia region, leads to the ruins of a tower where a historic chapter of Jewish persecution and tenuous survival took place.
An interview with poet laureate Tracy K. Smith.
When Professor Tracy K. Smith became poet laureate of the United States in 2017, she embarked on a series of trips to bring poetry, she says, “to parts of the country where literary festivals don’t always go.”
A story on the uprising in Trenton on April 9, 1968 in the Princeton Alumni Weekly
History professor Alison Isenberg was deep into her research for a book about American downtowns — and a chapter on urban violence in the 1960s — when she found herself puzzling over a New York Times article.
A cover story on mother and daughter pairs who earned MBA's at Columbia
Growing up, Dana Weeks Ugwonali ’03 was deeply inspired by her mother, Nathalie Weeks ’79 (’78SW), who ultimately used her MBA to manage social service agencies, helping some of the most vulnerable populations.
A profile of the fashion critics at The New York Times and The Washington Post for the Princeton Alumni Weekly
First ladies are often seen more than heard. On many occasions — be it a visit to the troops or a White House appearance with a world leader — they stand wordlessly by the president’s side.
A cover story on Princeton sociologists who study the lives of the disadvantaged
KATHRYN EDIN gets out of the car in one of the poorest neighborhoods in East Baltimore. Of the 11 rowhouses on the east side of the block, all but one are abandoned.
The trailblazers of the class of '73, the women of co-education at Princeton
The women of the Class of ’73 were pioneers — not just once, but again and again. The first female officer at an eating club. The only woman in an upper-level biology course. The first woman to win the Pyne Honor Prize.
A feature story on Off Broadway theater director Lileana Blain-Cruz
Theater director Lileana Blain-Cruz ’06 relishes tackling the most difficult plays out there. If a play looks practically unstageable — no plot, say, and densely theoretical language — her first thought is, “OK, how do we do it? Let’s do it,” she says.
Novelist Yiyun Li's 'land of stories' for Princeton's alumni magazine
There was no library that novelist Yiyun Li was permitted to visit as a young child. She was raised in Beijing during the final years of the Mao regime, and the government tightly controlled what books were available to the public.
Sisters who are sustaining the Yiddish language in Barnard magazine
It’s a language without a country, a Germanic tongue in the Hebrew alphabet. Many English speakers sprinkle their speech with its most vivid words (Oy vey! What a schlep!).
A profile of groundbreaking Colorado governor Jared Polis.
He’s been a wildly successful entrepreneur, member of Congress, and a groundbreaking governor. What’s next for Jared Polis ’96?
An exhibition about author Toni Morrison has never-before-seen material on her creative process and personal life.
In the 1970s, Toni Morrison led a hectic life.
The challenges some female Columbia MBAs have faced -- and overcome -- on the job
There’s a good chance that throughout her career, a woman will face a major hurdle at work—simply because she’s a woman.
A cover story in the Columbia Business School magazine about innovations in health care
Mechanical arms outfitted with surgical instruments help a doctor perform a gallbladder operation through a tiny incision, improving precision and reducing the chances of a complication.
Jewelry artists who mesmerize with works in glass.
Enticing with light, color, and fire, artists explore making glass jewelry at the Corning Museum of Glass
A Princeton Alumni Weekly interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides
For professor of creative writing Jeffrey Eugenides, publishing his first collection of short stories has been “like finding your diary. It brings you back to the person you used to be.”