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After I see a play—any play—I ask myself: “Could I have just _read_ it instead?” The value of translating the words of the playwright from the Cartesian Theatre to the actual theatre—to living flesh and blood—is often unclear, and the uninspired performance

This weekend the last of the film festival offerings are screened and a few events, like the Franklin Institute’s “Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy,” begin.

The Gazette talks with Newton Prize winners Julian Chender and Stephen Graf, both seniors, about their book collections--Chender's "humor of suffering" and Graf's "messy world of contemporary art."

Phoenix Editor-in-Chief objects to the Gazette's April Fools parody.

NOTE: This article is NOT part of our April Fools issue. Seriously.

Installation artist Ima Fraud and Dramaturge Keith Galessing have joined forces in developing a new vision of Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," performed entirely with garden gnomes.

What kind of Swarthmore date are you?

John Smith '13 isn't fully aware of it yet, but checking the "I'm Coming!" box on that acceptance letter he got yesterday means that he has just given up all hope of ever changing the world.

With the housing lotteries coming up soon, the Gazette decided to sit down with the Swatties who know their dorms best, the Dorm Creatures! This week, we interview Willets Cat, the favored feline of the campus’ well-known basically-sophomore dorm.

Novelist Elizabeth Strout read a selection of her work and announced the winners of the Plumer Potter Awards for student fiction.