… I’m bracing for a fresh wave of it, with a new novel on the way about a damaged, talented girl named Rainey Royal and … and she didn’t.) But I wasn’t prepared in 2009, when my first story collection, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, … began writing fiction at the age of 40, after years of being a journalist. I repeated what Madeleine told her …
/magazine/spring-2014/truth-fiction… her graduate adviser in 2001, she found herself drawn to the anthropological and religious aspects of early societies, … City is an ideal place to delve into the subject. In her first six weeks as a New York City resident, she’s been to … learned that solidarity among women is not a given—that being Christian, Muslim, wealthy, poor, rural, urban, and so …
/magazine/fall-2013/faces-new-faculty… The Married State By Debora Spar Barnard Magazine Barnard … do us part. So when the subject of same-sex marriage first arose some 40 years ago, critics dismissed it with a … might bring: “To be able to start a new phase of life by being married after 61 years would really be a completion of …
/magazine/winter-2014/married-state… Ariane Rinehart stars in TV’s The Sound of Music Ariane Rinehart ’15 By Jennifer Altmann … of the von Trapp children, Liesl, who memorably sings of being 16 going on 17, in The Sound of Music Live on NBC. The … attend rehearsals six days a week for two months for this first full-scale musical produced for live TV since 1957. …
/magazine/winter-2014/ariane-rinehart-stars-tvs-sound-music… Finding the Words Erica Jong speaks to Writing Fellows about the … how one could write fearlessly. Jong was one of the first women authors to write from a woman’s perspective, and … plans, I took to heart her insistence on being courageous in one’s writing, and her emphasis on the …
/magazine/summer-2015/finding-words… Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Spring 2018 For the first time, the story of the last survivor of the last slave … the slaughter of his West Africa community; his experience being held in a “barracoon” or enclosure used for slaves; his …
/magazine/spring-2018/barracoon… The Journey Beyond Barnard Beyond Barnard offers a one-stop … college? According to experts at Beyond Barnard , the first day of a student’s first year is not too early. And for … or computer science majors, with more pathways being developed • School of International and Public Affairs …
/magazine/winter-new/journey-beyond-barnard… this soil. Born in Castleknock, Ireland, you gleaned your first lessons in life from a strict Roman Catholic all-girls school and the example set by your mother Vera, a doctor at a time when … Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights before being nominated to your current post. On August 1st, 2013, by …
/student-services/commencement/commencement-archives/commencement-2015/citation-samantha-power… Our graduates have entered a variety of professions since the program was founded in 1996. Many of them have pursued … narrative–that’s what drew me to study literature in the first place. Learning to think critically about characters … and colleagues all over the U.S. and all over the world. Being able to code-switch based on my audience is hugely …
/testimonials… Commencement Commencement 2019 Viola Davis as the keynote speaker for Barnard's 127th Commencement. … empathy and the courage to fight for change. Davis is the first African American actress to win an Oscar, Tony, and … a demand” and offered alarming statistics about “women being under siege,” placing emphasis on reproductive rights, …
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