U of Chicago: Would you please tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, magazines, or newspapers? Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

U of Virginia: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?

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...The background of the photo GI with British Orphans by Robert Capa, is cold and sorrowful. The photo shows that the rain has just stopped and the road is empty except the subjects and one other person. Sky is dark and there are no leaves on trees...