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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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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.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
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01-22-2019
Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi reviews Josephine Quinn’s In Search of the Phoenicians.
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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.
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01-02-2019
Bard College Appoints Award-Winning Author Valeria Luiselli as Writer in Residence
Bard College announces the appointment of award-winning Mexican author Valeria Luiselli as writer in residence in the Division of Languages and Literature. 
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