Perhaps I would not have been so thoroughly bored by Fitzgerald and Hemingway had our classroom conversations explored less about male angst and more about what made these men so angsty. Maybe it’s not about putting these “boring” classics back on the shelf, but seeing what other books we can brush some dust off of.

A “generation” is defined as a group of people born in the same time period, and generation names exemplify our human tendency to categorize ourselves. Here’s a brief, non-comprehensive list of the Western cultural generations.

Award-winning author George Saunders revealed his behind-the-scenes process and tips when writing to a well-attended Tsai Performance Center audience as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer series Tuesday.

Of the approximately 20 film critics who attended the screening for Pierre Morel’s “The Gunman,” only one was a woman. This serves as an excellent suggestion of the film’s target (excuse the...