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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America, the debut book by Summer Brennan ’01, has been widely reviewed since its publication in August 2015.

Safiya Sinclair '10 has won the Boston Review's 2015 Poetry Contest. In introducing the winner, Cathy Park Hong writes "Sinclair collages a sensual lexicon, creating speech acts that are racialized assemblages. Her language is distinctive, assured, and a marvel to read."

Road to Paradise by Carson Efird ’05 is being restaged by faculty members Jenny Rohn and Kirk Jackson at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Mass. The piece was originally commissioned by ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Drama for the first year of the festival, and has been invited to return for the 10th anniversary celebration.

Peter Dinklage '91 won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister in the popular HBO series Game of Thrones. It was the actors fifth nomination and second win.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has named Fedwa Malti-Douglas (nonfiction, June ’11) a National Humanities Medalist for her studies of Arabic letters. Fedwa has mapped the discourse of gender and letters in the Arab Middle East and applied her insights to American culture.