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.…
Kai Speirs
Looking back on Professor Linn’s work
“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…
‘Politics of Desire’ film series spark dynamic conversations
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,…
Photography exhibit displays the diversity of wartime experience
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),…
Loeb’s latest ‘Apocalypse Sky’ evokes sense of immediacy
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…
Wandering through a downpour of rain-related art
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…
Drawing connections between mellow Americana and horror
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…
Editor recommends the best of Manhattan’s Chinatown
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…
Features Editor defends rum raisin ice cream
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,…
Waiting for Warm Weather with Albert Camus
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…