In a book of essays marking U-M’s 150th year, playwright Arthur Miller and other distinguished alumni revisit the halcyon days of college. Set against today’s digital backdrop, ‘Our Michigan’ makes a cogent and contemporary case for the bricks-and-mortar learning experience.  

Don’t call him a ghostwriter. Shape-shifting biographer James Dale, BA ’70, prefers ‘co-author,’ as he pens the life stories of athlete Cal Ripken Jr., sports agent Ron Shapiro, and political activist Elijah Cummings, to name just a few.

Nicholas Delbanco asks: How does one ensure the road not taken is the road to creative freedom?

Nicholas Delbanco reminds us that the act of writing (i.e., making marks on a surface) changes with the times.

Nicholas Delbanco explains why the pen is mightier than the sword — not to mention the spoken word.

New James Baldwin bios inspire personal memories of the writer, host.

Most writing that appears seamless likely has been stitched, unstitched, and stitched again.

Visionary, iconoclast, eccentric. What does ‘original’ really mean — and from where does originiality originate?

‘Hereward Thimbleby Price’ may sound like a character in a cozy English tale, but real life took him from Madagascar to Michigan.