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Arts & Life
(Photo: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Between the World and Me, Stamped from the Beginning)

7 books that will help educate you as an ally for the Black community

Justine Ha
  •  
Aug. 1, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks,’ a painting analysed in depth in Laing’s ‘The Lonely City.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A quarantine essential: Olivia Laing’s history of loneliness and art in New York City

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 17, 2020
Arts & Life
Reading metafiction is not unlike standing in a room of mirrors. (Graphic: CHASITY HALE/The Stanford Daily)

A room of mirrors

Lana Tleimat
  •  
July 8, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of ‘The Relief of Lucknow’ by Thomas Jones Baker, depicting one of the many sieges of 1857 that inspired ‘The Siege of Krishnapur.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

When a white author writes about colonialism: J. G. Farrell’s ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 6, 2020
Arts & Life
A Tale from the Decameron, by John William Waterhouse, 1916. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Epidemic escapism in Boccacio’s ‘Decameron’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 29, 2020
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Jasmine Liu reviews Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives," an epic of nomadism spanning time and space. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Bolaño and Deleuze: The exhilaration of nomadic wanderings and writings

Jasmine Liu
  •  
June 10, 2020
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Poet Angeline Truong honors George Floyd with a retrospective look at 9/11. (Photo: Outschool)

Poetry: ‘at a school assembly for 9/11’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
  •  
June 10, 2020
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Carly Taylor delivers a riveting prove into Ruchika Tomar's award-winning debut novel "A Prayer for Travelers." (Photo: Penguin Random House)

Craft and patience in ‘A Prayer for Travelers’

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
A beach walker seeks refuge from probing eyes. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Ventura

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 29, 2020
Arts & Life
A hiking backpack, cache of personal worries and hopes. (Photo: WhereNext)

Poetry: Ode on an REI Backpack

Rachel D'Agui
  •  
May 29, 2020
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A poem on family knowledge and a father's odyssey across the sea. (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP)

Poetry: ‘the return’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
  •  
May 27, 2020
Arts & Life
A young woman reflects on loneliness and intimacy. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Plan B

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 25, 2020
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Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
  •  
May 23, 2020
Arts & Life
Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
  •  
May 20, 2020
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Patrick Phillips discusses judging for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and shares his wisdom on the study and craft of poetry. (Photo: Marion Ettlinger)

Pulitzers and poetic forms: An interview with Patrick Phillips

Scott Stevens
  •  
May 19, 2020
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Poet and professor Nikky Finney (pictured) joined Allyson Hobbs' Community Hour to talk about poetry as well as the strength needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Wofford College)

An occasion for poetry with Nikky Finney

Maya Czeneszew and Betty He
  •  
May 18, 2020
Arts & Life
Haruki Murakami's novel alternates between two worlds, one an imaginary walled town, the other an almost imaginary Tokyo, all while exploring the nature of freedom. (Photo: Micah Lidberg)

Haruki Murakami’s involuntary freedom

Owen Shen
  •  
May 18, 2020
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A young boy named Galal sits alone at lunch, fasting, when another boy sits beside him. (Cartoon: Clementine Chou/The Stanford Daily)

Fiction: Galal’s Parlor

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
May 15, 2020
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Lily Zhou reviews Meng Jin's debut novel "Little Gods," the story of a brilliant, deceased Chinese physicist told by everyone but herself. (Photo: Debutiful)

‘Little Gods,’ big distances

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 14, 2020
Arts & Life
A review of Netflix’s recently release limited series, “Unorthodox,” examined with a lens of feminist liberation and Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.” (Photo: Netflix)

Esty and Edna: Uncovering the parallels between Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ and Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
  •  
May 13, 2020
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