“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 …
Among century-old artifacts held in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum (PMAM)—sleds, maps, four taxidermy polar bears—the museum also houses a new exhibition: “Inuit Qiñi?aa?ii: Contemporary Inuit Photography,” featuring select works from five different Inuit photographers from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The …
The Bowdoin Entertainment Board (E-Board), the College’s student-run event planning group, is planning to expand its programming this year. The E-Board also intends to widen its focus to include more types of events rather than solely planning concerts, which has …
On Thursday afternoon, Bowdoin students and community members gathered in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library’s Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) Learning Lab for a discussion on the collaborative book created by book artist Rebecca Goodale and Professor of Art Carrie Scanga, “Back Then …
Thursday evening, in the Massachusetts Hall Faculty Room, the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Visiting Writers Series returned with a reading from acclaimed Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail. O’Siadhail’s career has spanned multiple decades and explores an even greater number of topics …
At quarter to six last Tuesday evening, Kavya Doraswamy ’24 stood outside the Peucinian Room in the basement of Sills Hall, waiting. She was there to audition for BOKA, one of six a cappella groups on Bowdoin’s campus.
Things can get pretty intense in online-multiplayer games. With no regulation comes unmitigated bitterness and salt, rage and shattered glass—it’s just too easy to throw stones from behind a screen. And so it’s no wonder why, when home over summer …
Editor’s Note 10/20/23 at 5:13 p.m.: This article has been edited to correct a misconstruction of a quote. An earlier version incorrectly paraphrased that Professor McMullen believed jazz in Oakland to be more ‘authentic.’ The article now reflects an accurate …
Last fall, WBOR station manager Mason Daugherty ’25 stumbled upon a number of old magazines—or more specifically, zines, a more counterculture, grassroots type of publication reserved for freer, more unfiltered media that might not be published elsewhere. Daugherty’s discovery spurred …
When movies were just minutes long and seeing them cost only a nickel, theaters often named themselves after the French word for jewel: bijou (early cinemas often resembled the luxurious inside of a jewel box). As films evolved, large, multiplex …