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  • Book Explores Gay Dads’ Paths to Parenthood

    Book Explores Gay Dads’ Paths to Parenthood

    As more and more gay men set out to become parents, a new book by University of Iowa Professor Ellen Lewin explores their desire to become parents, the challenges they face along the path to parenthood, and how fatherhood affects their identities as gay men. “Gay Fatherhood,” an ethnography published by the University of Chicago [...]

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  • Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award

    Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award

    “Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter” by Seth Lerer of UC San Diego is the winner of the 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Administered by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the $30,000 award is the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism.

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  • Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman

    Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman

    U.S. Rep. Barney Frank will appear at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday, Feb. 16 to discuss his 30-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, and to sign copies of his biography “Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman.”

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  • Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher

    Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher

    Before Federer v. Nadal, before Borg v. McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed Wimbledon grounds, was a battle of titans: the world’s No. 1 tennis player against the No. 2; America [...]

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  • Herbert List

    Herbert List

    BALTIC SEA, Germany—Wrestling Boys, 1933. © Herbert List / Magnum Photos Herbert List (German, 1903-75) was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for Surrealism and Classicism. List rose to become the most prominent photographer of the Fotografia Metafisica style. He has described his images as “composed visions where [...]

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    ` Before Federer v. Nadal, before Borg v. McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed Wimbledon grounds, was a battle of titans: the world’s No. 1 tennis player against the No. 2; America against Germany; democracy against fascism. For five superhuman sets, the duo’s brilliant shotmaking kept the Centre Court crowdand the worldspellbound.

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