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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Where do we go from here? Notes on editing during a pandemic and racial justice revolution … [Read more.]

And So We Begin
And So We Begin

A convocation podcast for a campus in quarantine.

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A Conversation With The President
A Conversation With The President

President Laura Walker on leading through crisis and telling the institutional story.

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Most Celebrated Magazine at CASE
Most Celebrated Magazine at CASE

Winner of five Circle of Excellence Awards, the magazine was the most celebrated at CASE this year.

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Bookshelf- The Force of Nonviolence
The Force of Nonviolence
These Women
These Women
Wandering in Strange Lands
Wandering in Strange Lands
The Everlasting
The Everlasting
Nobody’s Child
Nobody’s Child
A Short Move
A Short Move
Kept Animals
Kept Animals
American Harvest
American Harvest
The Peanuts Papers
The Peanuts Papers
Eat Joy
Eat Joy
Alice Knott
Alice Knott
The Distant Dead
The Distant Dead
Glorious Boy
Glorious Boy
Artifact
Artifact
“…a slim volume that makes an outsized argument: that our times, or perhaps all times...” -The New Yorker
“The story unfolds through the perspectives of five characters, all women, with overlapping and interweaving histories.” -New York Times
“…a mesmerizing reminder that this divide between Black and white is a false binary..." –The New York Times
“For Smith, this is a literary hook, a means of exploring large moral questions..." –New York Times Book Review
“[I]n ways large and small, ‘Nobody’s Child’ dismantles troubling legacies in our legal...” –New York Times
“The beauty of the novel is that the teams don’t particularly matter...” –New York Times
“Milliken trusts us to keep up with her fast-paced tale, catching clues on the fly...” –New York Times
“[Marie Mutsuki Mockett] has the kind of deft touch with the English language...” –Financial Times
“[I]t’s occasionally humorous to note the collision of opinions, such as when writer...” –Washington Post
“Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, is a multi-genre, illustrated work of food writing. Literary luminaries …share personal essays and an associated recipe.” -NPR
“Read this beautifully unsettling novel and prepare to be ravished — and ravaged — as it winds its way inside your psyche, snake-like and persistent..." -Refinery29
“Powerful…a breathtaking read, with flawed and authentic characters who hit so close to home that at times it is impossible not to root for them.” -San Francisco Chronicle
"Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction of 2020, New York Post’s Best Books of the Week, Good Housekeeping‘s..."
“Proudly corporeal, fascinated by the workings of the physical form where our desires are housed as our tragedies are recorded...”  – Wall Street Journal

HEADLINERS

Single Use Plastic Ban

Single Use Plastic Ban

Senior CAPA Fellow, founder of Bennington’s Beyond Plastics institute, and former EPA administrator Judith Enck has been all over the news as a top expert in plastics reform.

When We First Arrived

When We First Arrived

Faculty member Mary Lum was one of 100 leading and emerging artists who made work for DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where The Children Are?)

Exposing Soil Contamination

Exposing Soil Contamination

Associate Director of Bennington’s Elizabeth Coleman Center for Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) David Bond and Beyond Plastics founder and visiting CAPA faculty member Judith Enck discovered PFAS in soil and water surrounding the incinerator.

IN MEMORIAM

Ron Cohen

Ron Cohen

 Beloved teacher, justice scholar, and stalwart proponent of progressive education..

Kate Merck

Kate Merck

Former Bennington trustee, lifelong nurturer of causes that advanced the progress of humanity, and one of the College’s most stalwart supporters... 

Bill Scully '94

Bill Scully '94

Who brought world cuisine, hydroelectric power, and an entrepreneurial tenacity to Bennington...