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February 2019
02-10-2019
Lauterbach brings every kind of writing into her work, writes critic John Yau: dialog, essay, letter, diary, lyric, prose, list, philosophical investigation, memory, fiction, dream, and citation.
02-09-2019
Author Valeria Luiselli starts a two-year residency at Bard College in the fall. Her new book, Lost Children Archive, confronts the impact of the border crisis on kids and families.
02-08-2019
Brendan Mathews's debut story collection, This Is Not a Love Song, is “packed with vivid detail, emotional precision, and deft, redemptive humor.”
02-06-2019
Greg Jackson, Bard Fiction Prize winner and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from his work on Monday, February 18, at the College’s Reem-Kayden Center.
02-04-2019
Valeria Luiselli has previously chronicled the true stories of immigrant children. Her new novel is a fictionalized version of those brutal histories.
January 2019
01-30-2019
When great writers are great teachers: Neil Gaiman takes his writing courses at Bard and offers them “in a sort of weird, mad, concentrated burst” for MasterClass.
01-26-2019
In her latest book, Unquiet, novelist Linn Ullmann turns to a subject she has always avoided: her complicated upbringing and her famous parents.
01-22-2019
Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi reviews Josephine Quinn’s In Search of the Phoenicians.
01-07-2019
Farah’s new novel offers no easy answers in the clash between religious extremism and secularism as it plays out in a Somali family living in Norway.
01-02-2019
Bard College announces the appointment of award-winning Mexican author Valeria Luiselli as writer in residence in the Division of Languages and Literature.