Drawing three different maps of the Library
“Study week” is the official term for the nebulous time period that might better be called “hang out in the library week.” Studying comes and goes—library navigation is eternal.…
By Kai Speirs – 2 weeks ago
“Study week” is the official term for the nebulous time period that might better be called “hang out in the library week.” Studying comes and goes—library navigation is eternal.…
By Kai Speirs – 1 month ago
“I knew I didn’t want to teach,” Professor of Art and acclaimed photographer Judy Linn told me as we discussed her upcoming retirement from Vassar, her curation of a new…
By Kai Speirs – 1 month ago
Professor of English Hiram Perez recently ran a three-part film series entitled “The Politics of Desire: AIDS Activism & New Queer Cinema,” followed by a final roundtable discussion between Perez,…
By Kai Speirs – 2 months ago
If you’ve been down in The Old Bookstore any time in the past week, you will have noticed a new photography exhibit entitled “Heroyam Slava!” (“Glory to Ukraine” in English),…
By Kai Speirs – 3 months ago
Currently on display at the Loeb’s Focus Gallery is an exhibition entitled “Apocalypse Sky,” an assemblage of about 20 works of art made in reaction to the HIV/AIDS crisis of…
By Kai Speirs – 7 months ago
It has been raining a lot as of late, a sign of the changing seasons as warmth leaves us until May (except for the odd warm day that seems to…
By Kai Speirs – 7 months ago
There is something horrific in cookie-cutter homes with hospital white trim and manicured lawns greener than any wild evergreen. The silence of suburbia, broken only by the sound of a…
By Kai Speirs – 9 months ago
Picture this: Sometime this semester, you find yourself on a day trip to New York City. Before you know it, it’s lunch time and you’re hungry. Now tread carefully, you…
By Kai Speirs – 1 year ago
Last week, a war broke out in the Misc office. The conflict started with an unprovoked attack on rum raisin ice cream by Senior Editor Monika Sweeney. In her article,…
By Kai Speirs – 1 year ago
I’m a firm believer in the seasonality of literature. I believe that there are perfect winter books, perfect books for rainy days and perfect books for hot summer-like days. For…