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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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July 2019

07-16-2019
Bard Faculty Cecelia Watson’s Sympathy for the Semicolon
Bard Language and Thinking faculty member Cecelia Watson brings the semicolon to life in this “deceptively playful-looking book that turns out to be a scholarly treatise on a sophisticated device that has contributed eloquence and mystery to Western civilization,” Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.
 
Full story in the New Yorker

Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Language and Thinking Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
07-12-2019
Professor Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Award for Preserving Jewish Archives
Jonathan Brent, Bard faculty member and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania from H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania. The honor recognizes Brent’s work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania.
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Photo: H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Jonathan Brent, YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO, at Order for Merits to Lithuania Conferment
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Literature Program,Religion and Theology,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): YIVO |
07-03-2019
Review: Daniel Mendelsohn’s <em>Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to “Game of Thrones”</em>
Professor Mendelsohn invokes the classics to offer perspectives on modern-day events in this collection—“one fascinating essay after another from one of America’s best critics.”
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Classical Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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