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Movies to watch in quarantine: ‘Her,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘The Witch’

Mark York and Nitish Vaidyanathan
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April 29, 2020
Arts & Life
(Graphic: AMY LO/The Stanford Daily) (Photo: UTV, Universal Pictures, TWC)

Movies to watch in quarantine: ‘Dangal,’ ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’

Mark York and Nitish Vaidyanathan
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April 21, 2020
Arts & Life
(From left to right: A24, Michael White Productions/Allstar, Studio Ponoc)

Movies to watch in quarantine: ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail,’ ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower,’ ‘Locke’

Nitish Vaidyanathan and Mark York
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April 14, 2020
Arts & Life
(From left to right: Xilam Animation, Warner Bros, HandMade Films)

Movies to watch in quarantine: ‘I Lost My Body,’ ‘Life of Brian,’ ‘Goodfellas’

Mark York and Nitish Vaidyanathan
  •  
April 7, 2020
Arts & Life
(From left to right: Netflix, A24, TWC)

Movies to watch in quarantine: ‘The Lobster,’ ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ ‘Icarus’

Mark York and Nitish Vaidyanathan
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April 1, 2020
Arts & Life
Mark York creates an original comic for his fascinating comparison of "Sherlock" to "Dragonball Z."

‘Sherlock,’ ‘Dragonball Z’ and a bad case of power escalation

Mark York
  •  
Dec. 3, 2019
Arts & Life
"Holidays on Ice" by David Sedaris contains a collection of essays about Christmas, decorated with his trademark humor and merriment. (Photo: Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company)

Reads for the end of the year

Maya Czeneszew, Scott Stevens, Shana E. Hadi and Mark York
  •  
Dec. 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Halloween (and surrounding weeks) are the ideal time to read these mysterious, ghostly, and contemplative tales. (Photo: Mark York/The Stanford Daily)

Spooktacular Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Scott Stevens, Lily Nilipour, Maya Czeneszew, Nicole Wesson, Roberta Gonzalez Marquez, Shana E. Hadi and Mark York
  •  
Oct. 30, 2019
Arts & Life
pickles

Face it, pickles are bad: an irrefutable proof

Mark York
  •  
Oct. 11, 2019
Arts & Life
Picture of Coraline nervously walking away from a door with signs, arrows, and blinking lights - it says "fantasy door."

Being a Child 101: ‘Coraline’ and making the most out of demographics

Mark York
  •  
Oct. 7, 2019
Arts & Life
Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy" breaks every rule of storytelling, but somehow it remains entertaining (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ to unusual narrative

Mark York
  •  
June 16, 2019
Arts & Life
Although "Ace Attorney" is an entertaining game, it is by no means an accurate depiction of the legal system (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

‘Ace Attorney’ in the real world

Mark York
  •  
May 22, 2019
Arts & Life
Bestselling author Robert Dugoni writes about spies, but his characters are never caricatures (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

The mind of an author with Robert Dugoni

Mark York
  •  
May 8, 2019
Arts & Life
Novices watching "Avengers: Endgame" may not understand why Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) embarks on a killing spree (courtesy of Disney and Marvel Studios).

A newcomer’s thoughts on ‘Endgame’

Mark York
  •  
May 2, 2019
Arts & Life
The English Romantic poet William Wordsworth once extolled the beauty of daffodils (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Lasting notes from National Poetry Month

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Lily Nilipour, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
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April 30, 2019
Arts & Life
Pixar's "Up" is not a talking-dog movie, but a profound meditation on childhood and change (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Up: The ninety-minute masterpiece

Mark York
  •  
April 15, 2019
Arts & Life
Sherlock Holmes would be shocked if he read "City of Glass." Paul Auster's story deconstructs classic detective fiction (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

In constructing a deconstruction — ‘City of Glass’ as the detective novel’s autopsy

Mark York
  •  
April 4, 2019
"Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" demonstrates that some books must be seen on screen (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Into the Adaptationverse – ‘Spiderverse’ proves that adaptations are necessary

Mark York
  •  
Feb. 19, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 14, 2019
Arts & Life
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" complicates genre conventions and conceptions of gender (courtesy of Flickr).

Reading for new beginnings

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens, Carly Taylor, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Jan. 28, 2019
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