Bookmarked: Faulkner at Virginia

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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun. The author’s two terms as writer-in-residence in 1957 and 1958 have taken on…

Lane DeGregory (Col ’89) wins a Pulitzer Prize for her article about a feral child

On the first day of her first semester, Lane DeGregory walked into the the Cavalier Daily’s offices, intent on reporting for the newspaper, and spent the next four years working…

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary kicks off Center for Politics series about the ’60s

Summer Reading

Books to read at the beach

Books to read at the beach by U.Va. faculty and alumni.

Ex Libris

Bookplate collection illuminates merger of art and literature

Intriguing bookplates from the libraries of the rich and famous debut at a U.Va. exhibit.

Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: January through March 2010

1. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann2. Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

New & Notable

The Art of Reflection

Alumna’s paintings feature Jefferson cups

Edith Arbaugh (Educ ’55) taught art in Charlottesville for 29 years. A well-known figure in the local art scene, she is one of the founders of the Central Virginia Watercolor…

Literary Wahoo of the Jazz Age

Novel about the 1920s U.Va. student experience republished

Ever wonder what the University was like in the Roaring ’20s? The novel Boojum! is set in a whiskey-soaked Prohibition-era Charlottesville where waggish poets wend their way through University parties,…

Mother and Child

New film about the longing for family

Saving Shots Is a Snap

Proper storage and backup give long life to photographs

Letters to the Editor

What a thrill to see the picture of Scott Stadium in 1964 (“Then and Now: An Illustrated Journey Through Time,” Spring 2010). After the Corps of Cadets and the West…

School of Rock

Battle of the Bands gives students musical springboard

U.Va.'s Battle of the Bands face off. Hear music clips and watch a video.

A Portrait of the South in Black and White

Memoir illuminates Charlottesville and the University during the civil rights movement

Paul Gaston recounts his role in the civil rights movement in Charlottesville.

Saying It with Flowers, My Way

Alumna writes a novel about the language of flowers

A large percentage of the articles I was writing then involved field trips with my kids to various D.C. locations filled with flora and fauna. As I jotted notes, I…