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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Pulitzer-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert talks climate change at annual Leopold Lecture

October 12, 2022

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and environmentalist Elizabeth Kolbert delivered the 33rd Leopold Lecture on her book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” on Wednesday night. The Leopold...

Perry: Journalists — tweeting our way to center stage

July 7, 2021

Growing up, I could tell you who Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon were. The journalists behind the local newspaper I read every morning? Twelve-year-old me had no clue. Print news used to employ a clear-cut...

Phillips: Stop romanticizing trauma and mental illness

April 10, 2018

Yesterday, I found myself on the Greyhound bus at 9 a.m., openly crying reading Junot Díaz’s new article in The New Yorker entitled, “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma.” I have loved his...

Kirkland: Nous sommes tous Charlie, however much we disagree with them

January 11, 2015

When walking to the Bastille Metro station from the east, just before you descend the stairs under the old Metropolitain sign, you can see for a moment the massive, green Colonne de Juillet framed...

Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell, a fiction writer, is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.

English profs praise work of former student, MacArthur Fellowship winner

September 30, 2013

Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg '03) reached a peak in her writing career earlier this month when she won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the professors that taught her...

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