“A Something Overtakes the Mind,” an installation at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, challenges traditional expectations of what an exhibition about a historical figure…
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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…
I would rather ignore the overstated and flat-out boring critical truism that every recession brings a new wave of dance music. Bleak times make for…
“Michel Kameni: Portraits of an Independent Africa,” a new exhibit at the Smith College Museum of Art, captures personal mementos from post-Independence Yaundé, Cameroon. This…
On Saturday, Oct. 4, the Northampton Center for the Arts building hosted the second annual Vintage & Vinyl Fair. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,…
On Sept. 25., the Department of Theatre’s New Play Reading Series presented “Made in USA with Imported Materials,” a play written and directed by Kinjal…
Tiana Clark’s “Scorched Earth” Selected as Finalist for the National Book Award
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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…
About a decade ago or so, it was made effectively illegal to be a white guy with a guitar and a feeling, to smoke American…
This article was originally published in the October 2025 print edition. Guillermo del Toro’s newest undertaking “Frankenstein” is a mostly-faithful, frequently heavy-handed, but successfully heartwarming…
The Sophian interviewed Allegra Hyde, Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature at Smith, about her short story “Endangered.” Originally published in American Short Fiction…