“And I’m starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked …
Bowdoin’s 60 auditors this semester range from Brunswick High School students to octogenarians. They include alumni returning to the Quad and first-time visitors to campus. Across departments, professors are given individual choice over whether to allow auditors into their courses, …
As the Bowdoin community attempts to educate themselves on the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine, six professors shared their thoughts through the lenses of their areas of expertise.
Nasser Abourahme
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies …
Campus bustled with faculty members, alumni and current students who came from near and far last weekend to celebrate the inauguration of Bowdoin’s sixteenth president, Safa Zaki.
Zaki was chosen to replace Clayton Rose after an extensive presidential search process. …
“Once she turned on me in apparent fury and shouted, ‘You goose!’ and then, before I had time to burst into tears, added in an explanatory tone, ‘That’s a metaphor.’” – May Sarton, “I Knew a Phoenix”
“The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even vulgarly do.” – J.D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey.”
So began “Zooey,” first published in the The New Yorker in 1957. The …
With 216 miles of rocky shores, the Town of Harpswell has the longest coastline in Maine. But as housing grows less affordable, families and fishermen fear losing access to the Gulf of Maine, and Bowdoin’s 118-acre Schiller Coastal Studies Center …
Mr. Mallard may not have been in the lead, but this summer, 75,000 visitors still made their way to Curtis Memorial Library in downtown Brunswick for the “Robert McCloskey: The Art of Wonder” exhibit. Visitors came from 49 states (all …
“As for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, no one knows where, a sheep we never saw has or has not eaten a rose …” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince.”