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Cate Burtner

Cate Burtner is the Vol. 267 Opinions Managing Editor and the Vol. 266 Reads Desk Editor. She is also an Arts & Life Staff Writer. She could talk about books all day.
Reads
Discover your next great read this spring! (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Listicle: What’s Stanford reading?

Allie Skalnik, Ellaheh Gohari, Blyss Cleveland, Hana Dao, Kelly Wang, Miriam Awan, Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz and Cate Burtner
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May 7
Reads
Airplane in blue sky with clouds and a pink heart around it.

‘Sky Daddy’ explores sex with airplanes, and what it means to be human

Cate Burtner
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April 24
Reads
Illustration of the "Dream Count" book on a teal background.

Adichie’s long-awaited ‘Dream Count’ leaves voids instead of dreams

Cate Burtner
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April 7
Reads
cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

‘Alone With You in the Ether’ is a fantasy of unrealism

Cate Burtner
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April 2
Humor
It's just one more Lima Bean. Just one more... (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/Stanford Daily)

‘A Bad Case of Stripes’ review: We mustn’t forget about the lima beans

Cate Burtner
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March 31
Reads
Poet Safia Elhillo holds a copy of her book, "Girls That Never Die," and speaks into a microphone.

Slam poets honor community and identity at third annual ‘Poetry Live!’

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 16
Reads
Stephanie Horvath and Rogelio Juárez sit side-by-side in chairs holding microphones. (

Horvath and Juárez offer a Stegner Fellow Reading ‘like no other’

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 3
Music
A Renaissance-esque photo of women sitting.

Love, situationships and everything in between: Songs for Valentine’s Day

Madisyn Cunningham, Joanne dePierre, Ellaheh Gohari, Garrett Khatchaturian, Blyss Cleveland, Ananya Navale and Cate Burtner
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Feb. 13
Events
Novelist, storyteller and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Tommy Orange spoke at the Stanford Faculty Club on the pretenders in American history. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

Tommy Orange presents on writing and pretending

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 3
Screen
A woman stands at a window with the shadow of a hand on her face and "Nosferatu" written as text.

‘Nosferatu’ (2024) marries the beautiful and the grotesque

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 28
Culture
Isabel Hagen stands in front of curtains cast with ultramarine blue light in the Bing Concert Hall Studio.

Isabel Hagen wins hearts through deadpan existential comedy. And viola.

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 22
Reads
cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

Obsession is not desire: ‘My Husband’ progresses beyond tropes of mental illness

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 13
Screen
A movie screen in a dark theater depicts teenagers in a high school hallway

Levin celebrates birthday at Presidential FLiCKS

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 19, 2024
Screen
A photo of Hasan Minhaj with the text "Hasan Minhaj: Off With His Head Netflix Review"

Hasan Minhaj is done with the cancel, but keeps riffing on the culture

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 18, 2024
Reads
cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

‘Sad girl poetry’ and the gendered political madness of 2024

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 12, 2024
Fiction
a cartoon of scared tree standing in the dark

Fiction: ‘Doomsday Manor’

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 3, 2024
Reads
cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

The viral book ‘A Little Life’ handles little with care

Cate Burtner
  •  
Oct. 28, 2024
Screen
A man holds open a book. Next to him is the text "English Teacher Review"

‘English Teacher’ highlights the human beyond the classroom

Cate Burtner
  •  
Oct. 23, 2024
Reads
An animated open computer sits on a desk next to some coffee, glasses and pencils against a yellow background.

Back-to-school books: Reading that shaped us

Cate Burtner, Kelly Wang, Sanaya Robinson-Shah, Anya Vedantambe and Grace Zhao
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Oct. 22, 2024
Reads
cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

The real monster of ‘Frankenstein’ is brutal, and it’s not who you think

Cate Burtner
  •  
Oct. 14, 2024

Multimedia by Cate Burtner

Reads
Poet Safia Elhillo holds a copy of her book, "Girls That Never Die," and speaks into a microphone.

Slam poets honor community and identity at third annual ‘Poetry Live!’

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 16
Reads
Stephanie Horvath and Rogelio Juárez sit side-by-side in chairs holding microphones. (

Horvath and Juárez offer a Stegner Fellow Reading ‘like no other’

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 3
Culture
Isabel Hagen stands in front of curtains cast with ultramarine blue light in the Bing Concert Hall Studio.

Isabel Hagen wins hearts through deadpan existential comedy. And viola.

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 22
Screen
A movie screen in a dark theater depicts teenagers in a high school hallway

Levin celebrates birthday at Presidential FLiCKS

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 19, 2024
Culture
The Robber Barons performing a comedy sketch at the event.

Stanford d.school party rocks with student art and design futures

Cate Burtner
  •  
Oct. 7, 2024
Reads
A speaker is talking in a room of audience with "Stanford Humanities center" written across the walls

Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading

Cate Burtner
  •  
May 17, 2024
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