Prescription for a Healthy Planet
Bad news about the environment sometimes seems so pervasive that a natural tendency for some of us is simply to ignore the problems and hope they’ll go away.

Memoiries, Memoiries
The memoir, as a literary form, may be several hundred years old, but it remains a favorite of contemporary writers. Perhaps that’s because of the nature of the memoir and the stormy times we inhabit. Unlike autobiographers and diarists, who are concerned primarily with their own lives as subject matter, memoirists usually describe their observations of or roles within historical events, cultural movements, or social interactions both great and small. Two recent memoirs from Rice alums aptly demonstrate this range.

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