Buckley, Yale, and The Dartmouth Review
Matthew O. Skrod reflects on William F. Buckley’s first book, seventy years on, and comments on the present state of affairs at Dartmouth.
Arts & Culture
Review Reviews: Telluride Comes to Dartmouth
Matthew O. Skrod reviews the six films screened at Dartmouth in September 2021 following their appearance at the Telluride Film Festival earlier in the month.
The Aesthetic of Erasure
I have only recently begun to do my studying in the East Reading Room. In terms past, I have preferred to work in the older,…
Gems of a Bygone Era: Rauner’s Classic Film Script Collection
Matthew O. Skrod investigates the formidable Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Script Collection at Rauner Library.
Black Samson: Dr. Nyasha Junior and Dr. Jeremy Schipper Reflect on an Overlooked Icon
Samson, the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites according to the Hebrew Bible, wears a modern face in Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon by Dr. Jeremy Schipper and Dr. Nyasha Junior.
First Duty: A Review
In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…
Dr. Kiarina Kordela and the Comrades of the Melancholic Revolution
On Thursday, April 8th, the Society of Fellows hosted a remote lecture via Zoom delivered by Dr. Kiarina Kordela entitled “Biopower From Here to Eternity.”
Accountable: A Review
My reading of Warren Valdmanis and Michael O’Leary’s Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism, could not have come at a better time. Valdmanis, a Dartmouth…
Afropessimism: A Review
Elijah T. Oaks ’23 reviews Frank B. Wilderson III ’78 newest book.
The Wrong Kind of Woman: A Review
When I first pulled my advanced reader copy of Sarah McCraw Crow’s most recent (and, as I would come to learn, first) novel from the…