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McCabe “Black Excellence in the Book Arts” Exhibit

When you walk into McCabe, you’re probably thinking about all the work you’ve got to do. Maybe you’re dreading a midterm that’s coming up or a ten-page paper that’s due at midnight. But what you’re probably not thinking of are the exhibits

November 14, 2019

Arts & Features·Features

Descent Into Insanity: Life Under “The Bell Jar” of Sylvia Plath

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. In many

September 22, 2015

Arts & Features·Features

Murakami’s Newest Novel Explores Self-Perception and Trauma

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Colorless Tsukuru

September 5, 2014

Arts & Features·Features

Divergent Movie Improves Upon Book

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Divergent is

March 31, 2014

Campus Journal

Pablo Villalobos’ static, indigestible new novel

Faced with the spiritually truncating demands of modernity, the twentieth-century idealist, as described by André Breton in the “First Manifesto of Surrealism,” was susceptible to complete enervation: “Menace accumulates, one yields, one abandons a part of the terrain to be conquered. That

March 27, 2014

Arts·Campus Journal

‘Little Failure’ a huge success

Near the beginning of Gary Shteyngart’s new memoir, “Little Failure,” Gary shares an emotionally charged moment with his father. “The past is haunting us,” Shteyngart writes. “In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small,

February 20, 2014

News

President Chopp Co-Publishes Collection of Essays, Seeks to Justify and Defend Liberal Arts

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Last December,

February 12, 2014

News

Sesquicentennial Book to Tell the Story of Swarthmore’s Values

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. When students

September 30, 2013

Arts & Features

Literary Alumnus Daniel Menaker ’63 Reads, Speaks at Writing Center on Monday

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. The introduction

September 10, 2013

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Descent Into Insanity: Life Under “The Bell Jar” of Sylvia Plath

Murakami’s Newest Novel Explores Self-Perception and Trauma

Divergent Movie Improves Upon Book

Pablo Villalobos’ static, indigestible new novel

‘Little Failure’ a huge success

President Chopp Co-Publishes Collection of Essays, Seeks to Justify and Defend Liberal Arts

Sesquicentennial Book to Tell the Story of Swarthmore’s Values

Literary Alumnus Daniel Menaker ’63 Reads, Speaks at Writing Center on Monday

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