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America’s Obsession with Consuming Crime

A while ago, my boyfriend sent me an Instagram post that, in his words, reminded him of me. The screenshotted tweet read,…

October 27, 2022
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College Hosts Inaugural Writers’ Week

Community members can attend virtual readings from a diverse range of authors as part of a week-long series celebrating creative writing. The…

March 24, 2022
Highlights/Opinion

Remember the Last Time You Read Translated Literature? Yeah, Me Neither

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, the library of the college where I’m currently studying abroad ran a special event: students could email…

February 24, 2022
Arts

McCabe Paperless Artists’ Books Exhibit

You may not be expecting to walk by a rare and thought-provoking art exhibition in McCabe library on the way to study…

February 27, 2020
Arts/Arts News/Highlights

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…

November 14, 2019
Campus Journal

Library digitization yields new opportunities, challenges

For current Swarthmore students, who have all been raised and reared in the internet age, it may be easy to take the…

October 29, 2015
Arts

Peripeteia prelude lecture series continues: faculty discusses the state of contemporary television

I was scrolling down my news feed this Tuesday when Peripeteia, a Community Development Grant Recipient for 2015, announced that it would…

April 16, 2015
Arts

Daisy Fried ’89 returns to read poems

Daisy Fried wants you to enjoy the pain that comes with her poetry. The Swarthmore alum worked for many years at the…

April 24, 2014
Campus Journal/Columns/The Scrivener

Morrison lectures, reads to delighted full house

On April 7th, Toni Morrison spoke to a packed house – so packed that many faculty were stranded outside, forced to watch…

April 10, 2014
Campus Journal/Columns/The Scrivener

No common grief in “Levels of Life”

In 2011, Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for “The Sense of an Ending.”  It was the first novel he had…

November 21, 2013
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