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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Read moreA conversation with Christopher Castellani
When Christohpher Castellani ’94 was a student at Swarthmore, he did not expect to become a writer, let alone the
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Printmaking Show in McCabe Displays Artist’s Singular Vision
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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A Novel and Authorial Mystery Worth Solving
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a nom-de-plume of J.K. Rowling) is a carefully crafted London-based detective novel that succeeds
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After the Syllabus, Beach Tomes
The upcoming summer away from Swarthmore means a rare window of reading books not dictated by sylabi. For those for
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