1. That's what they say

    ‘His or her’? ‘He or she’? Just how terrible is the Singular They?

  2. Hard times in Michigan

    Eileen Pollack’s new novel, “Breaking and Entering,” is a story of love, economic dislocation, and political extremism set in a rural Michigan that’s close to everyone’s home.

  3. Class warfare

    The strange, violent origins of the fraternity “rush.”

  4. Renaissance man

    U-M’s first black football player, George Jewett, spoke four languages, was valedictorian of his high school, earned a medical degree, and could wriggle through defenders or break a nose when he had to.

  5. Theater in the movie house

    The new trend of showing plays in movie theaters is actually not so new.