From the late 1980s through the 2010s, the romantic comedy reigned supreme. Filmmakers such as Nancy Meyers, Nora Ephron, Rob Reiner, Garry Marshall and Richard…
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On Oct. 22, the Carroll Room in the Smith College Julia Child ‘34 Campus Center was packed with students and professors, eager to listen to…
Tiana Clark’s “Scorched Earth” Selected as Finalist for the National Book Award
Photo by Candace Hope
When Tiana Clark wrote “The First Black Bachelorette” in 2016, she knew she had created something special. The long poem exploring the speaker’s concept of…
The Sophian interviewed Allegra Hyde, Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature at Smith, about her short story “Endangered.” Originally published in American Short Fiction…
This article was originally published in the April 2025 Print Issue of The Sophian. On Tuesday, April 8, the Smith College Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence…
To Smith College Lecturer Adrián Gras-Velázquez, poetry is like a nutella sandwich. From its addictive nature to the feeling of his childhood, Adrián sees poetics as just as sweet. His debut poetry collection, “Lo que hago en mi habitación,” brings his writing to the forefront.
Radical bookstores are that important. Not just in theory, not just on paper, but in how we materially change the world. Bookends, the lesbian marxist bookstore in Florence, dauntingly takes on the task of running a bookstore aligned with its values, pushing against the imagined lesbian history of Northampton and working tirelessly to revive the real one.
In under 100 pages, Anne Harding Woodworth (’65) dives into a conversation on gender fluidity. By looking to a mysterious past and future, in “Gender: Two Novellas in Verse,” she explores secondary universal themes of parenting, companionship and survivorship. Harding Woodworth brings genderfluid people to the forefront of her narrative, starting a conversation on representation and whose stories are worth telling.
Last week I set out on an expedition to find and read a Colleen Hoover book.
I’m an English major and, more relevantly, a lifelong literary elitist. Pretentious books have been the pillars of my superiority complex since grade school, as I peered disdainfully at my classmates’ beyblade battles over my copy of “Beowulf” and once told my seventh-grade teacher that I found “Great Expectations” just so much more rewarding when reading it for the third time.
“I guess you wonder how you got to where you are?” That is the first line of the introduction to Blair Sorrel’s (ʼ77) memoir, “A…