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Number of articles: 41
First Article: February 16, 2024
Latest Article: September 13, 2024
Talia Traskos-Hart
Portland Symphony Orchestra: Sunday, September 22 through spring 2025
With a $30 PSO College Card, students can attend any concerts in the 2024-2025 season. On Sunday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m., music directors past and present of Portland Symphony Orchestra …
Audience members who gathered in Kresge Auditorium yesterday evening heard retellings of life in Germany’s Weimar Republic as depicted in the TV show “Babylon Berlin.”
Hank Handloegten, one of the show’s three creators, writers and directors, came to campus after …
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—‘Such as I am, she will shortly …
“This is the cow.” – Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
When a plague of insomnia sweeps the fictional town of Macondo in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” its residents find themselves tossing and turning together.…
Footage from over 100 years ago and over 1,000 miles north captivated visitors at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s “Reframing Historic Arctic Films” festival last weekend. From Thursday to Sunday, films featuring floating icebergs, dogs racing in the snow and frost-covered …
“(I realize that I am forever combing reality for signs of literature.)” – Annie Ernaux, “Exteriors.”
From 1985 to 1992, French writer Annie Ernaux kept a diary of a new town (more to the point: of the people—strangers—in it.) In …
Though Professor of History Allen Wells retired in 2019, he remains an integral part of Bowdoin’s history and an active contributor to it.
Wells played a foundational role in starting the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx studies (LACLaS) program, …
“Perhaps it took the marriage of Now and Then, here in the weeks leading up to football season, to make us realize that in death we are declassified, whether it arrives in European forests that smell like attics or while …
Bowdoin students stood alongside students from the University of Southern Maine and Casco Bay High School in performing the Gaza Monologues last Saturday in Kresge Auditorium. The student performers hailed from Iraq, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Tunisia and the United States. …
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” – Daphne du Maurier, “Rebecca”
So begins my favorite book.
Widely held as one of the greatest opening lines in fiction, du Maurier inserts the reader immediately into the dream-like world …
