The Past is Not a Place for Strangers: Beer and Special Collections
By Ben Beese | March 14, 2019Middlebury’s Special Collections features a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet is amazing in its own right.
Arts & Culture
Techies Unite: Language Table Initiative Expands Its Options
By Yvette Yinuo Shi | March 14, 2019Tech Table provides a space for students to talk to professors in a non-academic setting.
Reel Critic: ‘Transit’
By John Vaaler | March 14, 2019Transit's shadowy fights in alleyways and white yachts floating across the Mediterranean perfectly capture the sheer fun of going to the movies.
PatchyTee: Student-Entrepreneurs Put Their Stamp on Midd
By Meredith Robertson | March 14, 2019PatchyTee specializes in custom, embroidered patches that are designed by various local artists.
The Librarian Is In
By Online Editor | March 14, 2019I 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, ...
Rodney Rothman '95 Recounts Oscar Win
By Riley Board | March 7, 2019Have 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 ...
Walking Through Middlebury’s Past: An Intro to Special Collections
By Ariadne Will | March 7, 2019Middlebury’s Special Collections and Archive is an opportunity to learn about the past with the aid of physical objects.
Speaker Series Sheds Light on China’s Economic Rise
By Benjy Renton | March 7, 2019Changyong 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.
The Librarian Is In
By Online Editor | March 7, 2019It 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 ...
Middlebury Alumni Win Big at Oscars
By Riley Board | February 28, 2019Brian Currie ’83 received his Oscars this Sunday after several awards for “Green Book” accumulated over the last several months.
Second Annual Spencer Prize Contestants Talk Privilege, Identity
By Riley Board | February 28, 2019This year's Spencer Prize finalists connected a concept they learned in a Middlebury class to something they cared about.
91st Academy Awards: No Host, No Problem
By Maggie Perrotta | February 28, 2019The 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.
Yamiche Alcindor Recounts a Career of Asking Tough Questions
By Hannah Bensen | February 28, 2019Alcindor reports stories about civil rights injustices and police violence.
The Librarian Is In
By Online Editor | February 28, 2019In 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. ...
J-Term Class Untangles History of Police Power
By Elsa Korpi | February 21, 2019Visiting Professor Amit Prakash taught the Winter Term course “Policing the Globe.”
Reel Critic: ‘Cold War’
By Riley Board | February 21, 2019'Cold War' makes stunning use of mirrors, in shots that had audience members faintly gasping.
The Librarian Is In
By Online Editor | February 21, 2019If 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, ...
Poet and Painter: Connections Between Chopin and Debussy
By John Vaaler | February 21, 2019Paden’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.
What is Overdrive?
By Online Editor | February 21, 2019The Middlebury College Libraries have recently acquired dozens of new audiobooks on the Overdrive platform. Try them out at go/overdrive/.