News from the Division of Languages and Literature

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film about a cinema superhero struggling for a comeback on Broadway boasts "extraordinary originality."

Bard Fiction Prize winner Laura van den Berg on teaching, the benefits of a quiet space, and how working on a short story is different from a novel.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced its 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees, and a Bard MFA alumna and faculty members are among them. Music/Sound faculty Jace Clayton, Writing alumna Charity Coleman MFA '13, and Writing faculty Matvei Yankelevich have all been named as winners. For the past 29 years, NYFA has awarded unrestricted fellowships of $7,000 to artists living and working in the state of New York. Awarded in 15 different disciplines over a three-year period, Artists' Fellowships support artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers.

Derek Furr, English faculty member and MAT Program director, considers how readers identify with the works of poets Derek Walcott and Elizabeth Bishop.

Distinguished Writer in Residence Francine Prose discusses the recent revelation that e-book retailers are able to track people's reading habits.

In Norman Manea's novel Captives, originally written in Romanian in 1970, characters are haunted by the past.

Last year Bard professor and acclaimed author Neil Gaiman did an experiment: take a hiatus from his immensely popular Twitter account and allow himself to get bored.

Conjunctions, the celebrated literary magazine published by Bard College, has won a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a $50,000 multiyear ($10,000/year) grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to support its print and electronic publication of award-winning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from many of the world’s leading contemporary writers and most innovative emerging authors.

Rikki Ducornet's The Deep Zoo is a collection of 15 short essays whose "capacity for insights and range of thought ... is sprawling."

Bard alumnus Ian Dreiblatt visits temple cults, urban landscapes, and cultures both modern and ancient through Robert Kelly's A Voice Full of Cities.