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Daniel Mendelsohn Interviewed in the New York Review of Books

Mendelsohn discussed his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press.
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Bard College Student Samantha Barrett ’26 Wins 2025 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize

This award recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers.
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Robert Cioffi Reviews The Red Sea Scrolls for the London Review of Books

The book discusses the papyri of Wadi el-Jarf, which changed how we view the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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April 2018

04-19-2018
Six Bard College Students Win Prestigious Fulbright Awards
Seniors Elena LeFevre, Nicola Koepnick, Adelina Colaku, Page Benoit, and Madeleine Breshears, and Bethany Zulick ’16 are among the Fulbright winners for 2018–19.
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Academics,Admission,Bard Abroad,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Economics,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
04-17-2018
Farrow was recognized for a series of articles that contributed to a “worldwide reckoning” regarding sexual harassment and assault and the dynamics of gender and power.
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04-17-2018
Professor Baldasso, director of Bard’s Italian Studies Program, was awarded the fellowship for his work on literary dissent during the transition from Fascism to democracy in Italy.
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04-04-2018
National Book Award–Winning Novelist Richard Powers to Read at Bard College on April 16
“If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century . . . he’d probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big” (Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books). 
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