I was enchanted. I’m sure it was the book cover art that stopped me and attracted me to this work: a man is falling precariously but his only preoccupation is his writing. I needed to know more. The main character of this work is Arthur Less, a gay man approaching 50 who is, against his own design, ...
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to win an Oscar?“You feel like you’re playing a role; it doesn’t feel real,” Rodney Rothman ’95, the writer and director of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and a first-time Oscar winner, explained. Rothman, who credits his creative start to the ...
Middlebury’s Special Collections and Archive is an opportunity to learn about the past with the aid of physical objects.
Changyong Rhee P ’21, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), asserted that Asia must not be ignored in the 21st century.
It is a shame, is it not, that I was 32 before I came to place Audre Lorde within a literary and social context. Middlebury, of all places, gave her to me. Not my undergraduate institution. Not my graduate school experience(s). Not my travels abroad. Rather, my job, as a librarian, on this campus. In ...
Brian Currie ’83 received his Oscars this Sunday after several awards for “Green Book” accumulated over the last several months.
This year's Spencer Prize finalists connected a concept they learned in a Middlebury class to something they cared about.
The first time in 30 years that the show has gone host-less, leaving the “Best of Hollywood” to lead themselves, crack their own jokes and be their own timekeepers.
Alcindor reports stories about civil rights injustices and police violence.
In terms of plot, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Underground Railroad,” is much of what you might expect: it’s a fictionalized story of two people escaping slavery in the pre-Civil War era South. The language is rich. The characters are full. The trajectory is treacherous. ...
Visiting Professor Amit Prakash taught the Winter Term course “Policing the Globe.”
'Cold War' makes stunning use of mirrors, in shots that had audience members faintly gasping.
If I am honest with you, the author of this work is everything I’ve ever wanted to be: a smart, paid and recognized writer who addresses issues of race in her writing without being beholden to them (and who has a solid plan B for a career, just in case). In this debut collection of short stories, ...
Paden’s interpretation of Debussy and Chopin highlighted the two composers’ similarities in color and technique, but also their stark differences — Chopin’s restlessness, Debussy’s obliqueness.
The Middlebury College Libraries have recently acquired dozens of new audiobooks on the Overdrive platform. Try them out at go/overdrive/.
Bo Burnham's directorial debut was chosen by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of 2018's Top 10 Films.
“Becoming” is everything you’d expect from the former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. It is a thoughtful, conscientious and well-crafted memoir that studies the first years of her life in Chicago, her arrival to undergrad at Princeton University in New Jersey, the ways she navigated ...
Leo Tolstoy lacked a firm definition for his seminal work, “War and Peace.” “It is not a novel, still less an epic poem, still less a historical chronicle,” wrote the Russian author. “‘War and Peace’ is what the author wanted and was able to express, in the form in which it is expressed.” ...
The life of French impressionist Georges Seurat, served as the backdrop for a cast of 22 Middlebury College students and members of the Middlebury community to showcase their talents on the stage and behind it in the J-term musical “Sunday in the Park with George."