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Wild Horses of Shackleford
By Rachna Reddy | February 8, 2012The Outer Banks have a strange geometry. They seem to operate in two dimensions.
The Outer Banks have a strange geometry. They seem to operate in two dimensions.
Pedro and I only realized each others’ beings upon eye contact.
With Valentine’s day approaching, Towerview’s Betsy Klein interviewed some of Duke’s couples.
EVP Tallman Trask knows how to keep it light in his Allen Building enclave.
Fredric Jameson,William A. Lane Jr. professor of comparative literature and romance studies, is one of today’s preminent voices on literary theory.
New Year’s Eve passed weeks ago, but with this page, Towerview begins 2012. It is a middle, not a start for a magazine whose editors change by the academic calendar. Still, in this first issue of...
It has been nearly thirty years since I drove to Oxford to visit its celebrated university and pay tribute to Shakespeare’s mausoleum in Stratford-upon-Avon in the heart of England. I was greeted...
Deciding between Duke and Columbia University for law school was a tough choice for Gao Xiqing, Law ’86.
“So tell me the most interesting thing about yourself. What makes you, you.”
Opening up his office on a Monday morning, Professor Pope “Mac” McCorkle, visiting lecturer at the Sanford School of Public Policy, is met by a desk scattered with slightly crumpled, thoroughly...
In August, when thousands of Duke students moved into their residence halls, they brought with them a mountain of cardboard.
The Church of the Good Shepherd welcomed a congregation of a few hundred to their 11 a.m. Sunday service with the baptism of two adults and several children.
Mohsen Kadivar spent 18 months in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison, mostly in solitary confinement.
Mohsen Kadivar, an Ayatollah, dissident and Iranian exile who now teaches at Duke, dedicated his first book to his father. “A humble teacher,” Kadivar calls him, “practicing reason, religiosity,...
Towerview takes a look at music in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill.
It would be an understatement to say that the past two months in Israel have been exciting.
We finish October wearing masks. Cloaked in cloaks, hair under wigs, eyes canopied by false lashes. Costumed masses will parade Franklin Street, unrecognizable. On Halloween, we experience the...
As the holiday approaches, we look back at the Halloweens of Duke’s past.
Ed Rickards is not a morning person, so he prefers not to be bothered before noon. He writes late at night next to an ice-cold bottle of water on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he lives.
The outfield of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park played host to the 16th annual World Beer Festival Saturday Oct. 8.