Mount Holyoke’s own Professor Corinne Demas has done it again with her latest Young Adult novel, Returning to Shore. Not only is this story a tender coming of age story, it also speaks to the struggle of navigating daughter-parent relationships of all kinds. The novel opens with slightly naïve, teenage […]
Books
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Jesse Ball’s Silence Once Begun: a strange, compelling mystery
Many pages of Jesse Ball’s new novel, Silence Once Begun, are open and airy with blank space. But to dismiss the brief...
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My Life in Middlemarch: an affecting portrait of bibliophilia
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost...
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Pastan takes on the art world in the creepily atmospheric Alena
This past month, many Wellesley College students were disturbed by the apparent sight of a near-naked man sleepwalking...
The Office’s B.J. Novak releases debut of wry, absurdist stories
In a deadpan, humdrum voice, B. J. Novak will whisper surrealist and imaginatively absurd stories into your ear. You may laugh, but Novak’s whisper both tingles and confounds. Each story reads like a journal entry, a simple, mundane, insignificant, quiet detail of life. But when one attempts to breach the […]
Read more ›The Glascock Committee prepares for 91st annual poetry competition
In 1923, an uncommonly talented young poet named Kathryn Irene Glascock—already published in Vanity Fair and Poetry—passed away soon after graduating from Mount Holyoke College. The same year, the college’s Department of English established the Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition to honor her memory, enabled by a gift from her parents. […]
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