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A writer reads her work at the Archive's 2017 Salon.
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The Archive's poetry reading showcases students' literary talents

By Joel Kohen | December 5, 2018

One of the more solitary liberal arts, poetry tends to keep a low profile. Although Duke may not offer a creative writing major, its student body and faculty contain numerous avid poets. This was literary talent was evident at the Salon, an annual public poetry reading organized by The Archive, the university’s primary literary magazine, Saturday.

Good Coffee plays in The Ruby Lounge as part of Small Town Records' student showcase.
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Small Town Records signs three new artists

By Margot Armbruster | November 28, 2018

As a high-school sophomore, now first-year Jay Albright sold his video games and consoles to pay for music production equipment. The Atlanta native had indulged his love of beat-mixing for years, but it wasn’t until his late teens that he began to take himself seriously as an artist. In the end, his financial gamble paid off: Small Town Records, Duke’s student-run label, signed Albright, who raps under the pseudonym MAUI. 

"Dancing at Lughnasa," Duke's fall Theater Studies show, is set during the summer of 1936 in a fictional Irish town.
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Dance unites a jaded family in 'Dancing at Lughnasa'

By Grace Peterson | November 23, 2018

As the darkness lifts, seven frozen figures are revealed on a dimly lit stage. Their stagnant poses and stoic demeanors create a hazy atmosphere, pulling the audience into what seems to be a memory, or perhaps a dream. The spell-like ambiance is disrupted by a figure moving toward the audience, speaking in a deep Irish accent. 

Blackburn visiting professor Lucy Corin graduated from Duke in 1992 and has published two short story collections and a novel.
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Visiting professor Lucy Corin discusses MFAs, short stories

By Joel Kohen | November 14, 2018

Lucy Corin, Trinity ’92, is a writer and visiting professor of English at Duke, as well as professor of English at the University of California at Davis. She has published two collections of short stories, “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses” and “The Entire Predicament," and one novel, “Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls."

Duke professor Thomas Brothers recently released his book "Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration."
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Duke music professor releases book on magic of collaboration

By Joel Kohen | November 7, 2018

Like many of their artistic peers, famous composers are commonly panned as egocentric monomaniacs obsessed with their own genius. To challenge this myth, Duke professor Thomas Brothers recently published “Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration,” a new book dedicated to the methods of collective composition. 

Duke Players performed "[title of show]" last weekend, following a group of friends as they try to write a Broadway musical.
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Duke Players '[title of show]' knows that it's a musical

By Sydny Long | October 31, 2018

The theater has no fourth wall. Although meta humor and fourth wall smashing have become staples of movies, television and other mediums in an attempt to refresh otherwise hackneyed tropes by pointing them out to the audience, theater has been making use of these devices for decades.

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